ci: use hosted runners for QA
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Current evaluation
Merged #359 via commit 216b18c, switching QA from self-hosted runners to hosted runners for non-x86 ARM coverage; all checks passed.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #359 was approved with no unresolved comments and merged as commit 216b18c. Passing QA checks included Ubuntu ARM jobs on Python 3.10 and 3.12.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
We don't need to use self-hosted runners for QA here. This also ensures that we test on a non-x86 architecture.
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
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| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged #359 via commit 216b18c, switching QA from self-hosted runners to hosted runners for non-x86 ARM coverage; all checks passed. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR #359 (commit 216b18c) to run QA on GitHub-hosted runners, removing the self-hosted requirement and adding non-x86 CI coverage. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR #359 (commit 216b18c), moving QA from self-hosted to hosted runners so CI also tests a non-x86 architecture. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged CI change replacing self-hosted QA runners with hosted runners to test on a non-x86 architecture; all CI checks passed. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged update to CI configuration switching QA workflows from self-hosted to GitHub-hosted runners. Enables non-x86 architecture testing. Approved by two reviewers with all CI checks passing. Changes modify one file. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1160 ci(qa): switch to hosted runners | rockcraft | merged | Merged in PR #1160 as commit 0a9a3537, switching unit and integration QA jobs to GitHub-hosted runners to avoid self-hosted CI access issues for external contributors. | |
| #2284 ci: run tests on GH-hosted runners | charmcraft | merged | Merged into main as commit 7cf39901, moving QA Linux test jobs from hosted infrastructure to GitHub-hosted Ubuntu runners. | |
| #132 ci: switch to public runners and more architectures | craft-grammar | merged | Merged #132 switched CI to public hosted runners and expanded architecture coverage; all checks passed. | |
| #789 ci: switch test runs to free GitHub public runners | craft-application | merged | Merged in #789 via commit 2f7589db, switching CI test jobs to free GitHub-hosted runners while retaining self-hosted runners for other architectures. | |
| #1568 ci: use ubuntu-22.04-arm runners | craft-parts | merged | Merged PR #1568 as commit a85b4349, replacing Jammy arm64 medium QA runners with ubuntu-22.04-arm while preserving matrix coverage. | |
| #1570 ci: split QA workflows by runner | craft-parts | open | Splits QA into qa-github-hosted.yaml and qa-self-hosted.yaml, moving s390x/ppc64el/resolute/jammy-arm64 lanes to self-hosted runners. Maintainer-authored, 0 reviews, idle 148 days; 11 checks failing, all self-hosted lanes. | |
| #293 ci: run on self-hosted runners | fetch-service | merged | Merged CI change to run jobs on self-hosted runners; resolving commit fb8fa56 landed in main. | |
| #309 ci: switch to public runners | craft-store | merged | Merged in commit 6708391, switching CI from private infrastructure to public runners; all checks passed. Upstream test updates were tracked in canonical-repo-automation#286. | |
| #1643 ci: add ubuntu-26.04 and ubuntu-26.04-arm runners to QA workflows | craft-parts | closed | Ubuntu 26.04/ARM QA coverage was not merged: #1643 closed after runner disk-quota exhaustion and persistent CI failures despite SDK and image-cleanup changes. | |
| #227 ci: test on Ubuntu 26.04 (Resolute) | craft-platforms | closed | PR #227 (self-hosted Resolute runner for QA) was closed unmerged; maintainer declined the scope. Its goal landed instead via merged PR #230 (d5df334), which added Ubuntu 26.04/26.04-arm QA coverage and fixed #226. |