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cargo-use plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter

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Project
craft-parts
Number
#1233
Type
issue
State
open
Author
lengau
Labels
Status: Needs information
Created
Updated
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Current evaluation

Feature request to add disable-parallel to the cargo-use plugin. Labeled Needs information; maintainer awaits a real-world use case, none provided in ~12 months. Plugin still lacks the property; its build step is a file copy, so the property would be a no-op.

Suggested action: close stale

Reason: The issue is labeled 'Status: Needs information' and the body explicitly says it is 'extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case'; no use case has been provided in 363 days, far past the 6-month threshold for a maintainer-requested detail. Additionally, the cargo-use plugin's build step is only a `cp` command (no actual build runs), so disable-parallel would be a no-op, giving a concrete reason the request is not actionable as filed.

Impact: 10 Quick Win: 8.5 Staleness: 80 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 75 Support Request: 10

Issue body

### What needs to get done Support the [disable-parallel](https://canonical-craft-parts.readthedocs-hosted.com/latest/common/craft-parts/reference/part_properties/#disable-parallel) part property in the cargo-use plugin. ### Why it needs to get done All of our plugins should theoretically support this. In practice though, this is extremely low priority until someone shows us a real-world use case for it. If someone can bring us a real-world use case that we can test against (especially a case of "this application simply does not build with parallel"), that would be ideal. The [autotools plugin](https://github.com/canonical/craft-parts/pull/1167) required this for OpenJDK builds, for example.

Evaluation history

Date Model Scores Action Summary
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Impact: 10
Quick Win: 8.5
Staleness: 80
Complexity: 15
Confidence: 75
Support Request: 10
close stale Feature request to add disable-parallel to the cargo-use plugin. Labeled Needs information; maintainer awaits a real-world use case, none provided in ~12 months. Plugin still lacks the property; its build step is a file copy, so the property would be a no-op.
qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 35
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
close stale Request to add disable-parallel property support to the cargo-use plugin. Labeled needs information, inactive for a year, awaiting a real-world use case to justify implementation.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 85
Complexity: 20
Confidence: 85
Support Request: 10
close stale Request to add disable-parallel part property support to the cargo-use plugin. Inactive for 309 days with no maintainer response or assigned work, awaiting a real-world use case.
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6
Staleness: 75
Complexity: 30
Confidence: 70
Support Request: 10
keep open Add disable-parallel parameter support to the cargo-use plugin. Currently inactive and awaiting a real-world use case to justify implementation. Status: needs information.

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Related work

  • Related To: canonical/craft-parts#1167 (confidence 90%)

    Autotools plugin PR cited in the issue body as the precedent that added disable-parallel support.

  • Related To: craft-parts#1238 (confidence 85%)

    Same disable-parallel request for the go-use plugin, also labeled Needs information with no use case in ~12 months.

  • Related To: craft-parts#1242 (confidence 85%)

    Same disable-parallel request for the make plugin, triaged but inactive over a year.

  • Related To: craft-parts#1247 (confidence 85%)

    Same disable-parallel request for the python plugin, with a proposed 3-state design under discussion.

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