lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2024]   [Feb]   [29]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing
Hi!

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:23:22AM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On 2/29/24 11:02, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 07:55:25PM -0300, Helen Koike wrote:
> > > Which rating would you select?
> >
> > 4.5 :)
> >
> > One thing I'm wondering here is how we're going to cope with the
> > different requirements each user / framework has.
> >
> > Like, Linus probably want to have a different set of CI before merging a
> > PR than (say) linux-next does, or stable, or before doing an actual
> > release.
> >
> > Similarly, DRM probably has a different set of requirements than
> > drm-misc, drm-amd or nouveau.
> >
> > I don't see how the current architecture could accomodate for that. I
> > know that Gitlab allows to store issues template in a separate repo,
> > maybe we could ask them to provide a feature where the actions would be
> > separate from the main repo? That way, any gitlab project could provide
> > its own set of tests, without conflicting with each others (and we could
> > still share them if we wanted to)
> >
> > I know some of use had good relationship with Gitlab, so maybe it would
> > be worth asking?
>
> GitLab already supports getting the CI YAML from other repos. You can change
> that in the repo settings.

I'm interested but couldn't find it in the doc, do you have a link to
the right section?

> However, I think a better approach would be *not* to add the .gitlab-ci.yaml
> file in the root of the source tree, but instead change the very same repo
> setting to point to a particular entry YAML, *inside* the repo (somewhere
> under "ci" directory) instead.
>
> This way all the different subtrees can have completely different setup, but
> some could still use Helen's work and employ the "scenarios" she
> implemented.

I'm worried that this kind of setup will just create duplicated YAML
that will be developped in complete silos and will become difficult to
maintain. But that's definitely an opinion :)

Maxime
[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2024-05-27 15:27    [W:0.128 / U:0.072 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site