RFR: 8282944: GHA: Add Alpine Linux x86_64 pre-integration check [v3]

[George Adams]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:27:56 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> While to code itself looks like its doing what it claims to do, I wonder about the reason for doing this. This will slurp up even more CPU minutes from the individual OpenJDK contributors free GitHub allowance, and potentially make the pre-submit tests even slower. For what gain?

I think that testing on Alpine is valuable here, it allows us to capture musl-specific edge-cases. I would argue that it's likely more valuable to test the musl code than it is to test the Linux x86 code (maybe we should ramp that down)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7771