CI Best Practices

This document is a placeholder. Some topics we will want to remember to cover:

• Various workflows
• PR vs nightly vs push
• Uses of ASWF docker containers
• Paid runners for special needs: high-memory, high processing, or GPU
• Selecting test coverage – HW/OS platforms, VFX Platform years, testing things older or newer then VFXP years.
• “Bleeding edge” and “canary” tests
• Making python wheels
• CI jobs for analysis (static analysis, sanitizers)
• Using Sonar or other systems
• Efficiency of CI runs
  • GHA caching
  • ccache
• Various GHA tips
  • Shared workflow steps