Re: [PATCH 0/4] Jobs based on custom runners: add CentOS Stream 8

[Willian Rampazzo <wrampazz@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 11:09 AM Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> This builds on top the "GitLab Custom Runners and Jobs (was: QEMU
> Gating CI)" series, showing an example of how other entities can
> add their own custom jobs to the GitLab CI pipeline.
>
> First of all, it may be useful to see an actual pipeline (and the
> reespective job introduced here) combined with the jobs introduced
> on "GitLab Custom Runners and Jobs (was: QEMU Gating CI)":
>
>  * https://gitlab.com/cleber.gnu/qemu/-/pipelines/316527166
>  * https://gitlab.com/cleber.gnu/qemu/-/jobs/1325976765
>
> The runner (the machine and job) is to be managed by Red Hat, and
> adds, at the very least, bare metal x86_64 KVM testing capabilities to
> the QEMU pipeline.  This brings extra coverage for some unittests, and
> the ability to run the acceptance tests dependent on KVM.
>
> The runner is already completely set up and registered to the
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu project instance, and jobs will
> be triggered according to the same rules for the jobs introduced on
> "GitLab Custom Runners and Jobs (was: QEMU Gating CI)", that is,
> but pushes to the staging branch.  Still, the job is set with mode
> "allow failures", so it should not disrupt the existing pipeline.
> Once its reliability is proved (rules and service levels are to be
> determined), that can be reverted.
>
> Even though the formal method of tracking machine/job maintainers have
> not been formalized, it should be known that the contacts/admins for
> this machine and job are:
>
>  - Cleber Rosa
>    <crosa@redhat.com>
>    clebergnu on #qemu
>
>  - Willian Rampazzo
>    <willianr@redhat.com>
>    willianr on #qemu

Acked-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>