Guide on speeding up CI builds
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Description
Would be great with a guide (building on the CI with Cachix guide) that shows how to speed up CI, like minimizing rebuilds, making tests be derivations, and reducing cache fetching. This thread sparked some discussion.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the existing CI with Cachix guide and the linked discussion thread. Define the guide around minimizing rebuilds, making tests derivations, and reducing cache fetching; it is done when those CI-speedup techniques are clearly explained in a new guide.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100