ci: limit build jobs to 30min so that they can retry when they go wrong

Build jobs should never take more than 1-3 minutes.

These jobs are never slow, either they finish within reasonable time or
something has gone wrong and the job will never terminate, so we should
instead timeout and retry.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/24995>

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/build/gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci/build/gitlab-ci.yml
index b70dd02..4292db7 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitlab-ci/build/gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/build/gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
   extends: .build-rules
   # Cancel job if a newer commit is pushed to the same branch
   interruptible: true
+  # Build jobs don't take more than 1-3 minutes. 5-8 min max on a fresh runner
+  # without a populated ccache.
+  # These jobs are never slow, either they finish within reasonable time or
+  # something has gone wrong and the job will never terminate, so we should
+  # instead timeout so that the retry mechanism can kick in.
+  # A few exception are made, see `timeout:` overrides in the rest of this
+  # file.
+  timeout: 30m
   artifacts:
     name: "mesa_${CI_JOB_NAME}"
     when: always