go-use plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter
Metadata
Current evaluation
Support for disable-parallel in go-use remains open and is explicitly deferred pending a real-world Go project that fails under parallel builds.
Suggested action: keep open
Reason: The maintainer-authored issue is explicitly triaged as extremely low priority, and its Needs information status reflects the request for a real-world failing project. The current go-use plugin still lacks disable-parallel handling, so this remains a valid but not implementation-ready enhancement.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
Impact:
28
Quick Win:
9
Complexity:
32
Confidence:
95
Actionability:
48
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 go-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha |
Impact:
28
Quick Win:
9
Complexity:
32
Confidence:
95
Actionability:
48
|
keep open | Support for disable-parallel in go-use remains open and is explicitly deferred pending a real-world Go project that fails under parallel builds. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Impact:
20
Quick Win:
14
Complexity:
10
Confidence:
80
Actionability:
80
|
keep open | The go-use plugin lacks support for the disable-parallel part property. This is a low-priority enhancement that requires a real-world use case to justify implementation. | |
| qwen/qwen3.8-27b |
Impact:
10
Quick Win:
8
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
25
Confidence:
85
Support Request:
5
|
close stale | Feature request to add the disable-parallel part property to the go-use plugin. Labeled Needs information; maintainer awaits a real-world use case, none provided in ~12 months. Plugin still lacks the property. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b |
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
90
Support Request:
10
|
close stale | Request to add disable-parallel support to the go-use plugin. Labeled needs information, inactive for over a year, awaiting a real-world use case to justify implementation. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
Staleness:
85
Complexity:
30
Confidence:
75
Support Request:
10
|
needs triage | Enhancement request to add disable-parallel property support to the go-use plugin. Currently inactive and awaiting a concrete use case to justify implementation. |
Update history
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Related work
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Related To:
canonical/craft-parts#1167
(confidence 99%)
The issue cites this Autotools implementation as the precedent for supporting disable-parallel.
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Related To:
craft-parts#1237
(confidence 98%)
Companion issue for the go plugin, whose go install command explicitly uses parallel_build_count.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1237 go plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Adding disable-parallel support to the Go plugin remains open and low priority, pending a concrete real-world use case or application that fails with parallel builds. | |
| #1233 cargo-use plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Cargo-use lacks the disable-parallel part property; the maintainer marked it Needs information and is waiting for a real-world Rust build that fails with parallel execution. | |
| #1242 make plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Enhancement: make plugin should honor the disable-parallel part property (currently always emits make -j"N"). Filed by a maintainer, labeled Triaged/Enhancement, and explicitly deferred as "extremely low priority" until a real-world non-parallel-build use case is supplied; autotools already has it via PR #1167. | |
| #1246 npm plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Add disable-parallel support to the npm plugin. It remains open and low priority, with the maintainer requesting a real-world npm build case before prioritizing implementation. | |
| #1249 qmake plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Enhancement: add disable-parallel support to the qmake plugin. Maintainer-filed, labeled Needs information; explicitly deferred as low priority pending a real-world use case. One of six sibling per-plugin issues (cmake, meson, make, go, rust). | |
| #1232 ant plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Ant plugin support for disable-parallel is unimplemented; the request remains open as Needs information, with maintainers requesting a real-world case that fails under parallel builds. | |
| #1239 gradle plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Feature request: add `disable-parallel` support to the gradle plugin. Maintainer labels it low-priority, 'Needs information', asking for a real-world use case that fails under parallel builds; design (None/False/True) sketched in a comment. | |
| #1250 rust plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Request to honor the documented `disable-parallel` part property in the rust plugin. Maintainer-opened, labeled Needs information, explicitly deprioritized pending a real-world use case; rust_plugin.py still builds with cargo defaults. | |
| #1247 python plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Python plugin support for compiled-wheel parallel control remains unimplemented; maintainers are awaiting a real-world case and resolution of tri-state semantics versus setting CRAFT_PARALLEL_BUILD_COUNT=1. | |
| #1251 scons plugin: Support `disable-parallel` parameter | craft-parts | open | Maintainer-filed enhancement (lengau) asking the scons plugin to honour the disable-parallel part property, like autotools; explicitly deferred as "extremely low priority" pending a real-world use case. Labeled Needs information, no comments. |