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From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Erik Skultety" <eskultet@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Willian Rampazzo" <willianr@redhat.com>,
	"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
	"Miroslav Rezanina" <mrezanin@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 14/15] gitlab-ci: Allow forks to use different set of jobs
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:09:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <015bf078-35b5-5bc3-0a8b-c8d2daa7a16c@amsat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YH1QJZGYQXc6x9Et@redhat.com>

On 4/19/21 11:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:34:47AM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Forks run the same jobs than mainstream, which might be overkill.
>> Allow them to easily rebase their custom set, while keeping using
>> the mainstream templates, and ability to pick specific jobs from
>> the mainstream set.
>>
>> To switch to your set, simply add your .gitlab-ci.yml as
>> .gitlab-ci.d/${CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE}.yml (where CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE
>> is your gitlab 'namespace', usually username). This file will be
>> used instead of the default mainstream set.
> 
> I find this approach undesirable, because AFAICT, it means you have
> to commit this extra file to any of your downstream branches that
> you want this to be used for.  Then you have to be either delete it
> again before sending patches upstream, or tell git-publish to
> exclude the commit that adds this.

Good point. What I'm looking for is allow fork to keep following the
mainstream development.

> IMHO any per-contributor overhead needs to not involve committing
> stuff to their git branches, that isn't intended to go upstream.

But why am I forced to run the upstream overhead stuff into my fork?
I find it counter-productive for my limited set of topic I'm modifying.
Also, why should I wait >2h for a pipeline when I exactly know which
area I'm modifying? This is a waste of time and resources.

Gitlab suggested an alternative 3 months ago, it is still fresh:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#variables-with-include
combined with
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#includeremote
and
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#multiple-files-from-a-project
we could have forks include their gitlab-ci.yml from a specific branch
of their repository.

Example, if I push a branch named project-specific-ci, and we add
that to mainstream:

  include:
  - project: '$CI_PROJECT_PATH'
    ref: project-specific-ci
    file:
      - '/.gitlab-ci.d/project-specific.yml'

The it would include
project-specific-ci:/.gitlab-ci.d/project-specific.yml in all
branches/tags I push.

In that case we could rename qemu-project.yml -> project-specific.yml
(patch 12).

The problem is I couldn't have it optionally working (when there is
no 'project-specific-ci' branch).

Still room for investigation...

Thanks for the feedback,

Phil.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-19 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-18 23:34 [RFC PATCH 00/15] gitlab-ci: Allow forks to use different pipelines than mainstream Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 01/15] gitlab-ci: Replace YAML anchors by extends (container_job) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 02/15] gitlab-ci: Replace YAML anchors by extends (native_build_job) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 03/15] gitlab-ci: Replace YAML anchors by extends (native_test_job) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 04/15] gitlab-ci: Replace YAML anchors by extends (acceptance_test_job) Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-05-03  9:22   ` Thomas Huth
2021-05-03  9:45     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 05/15] gitlab-ci: Rename acceptance_test_job -> integration_test_job Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19  5:19   ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-23 17:18     ` Willian Rampazzo
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 06/15] gitlab-ci: Extract container job template to container-template.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 07/15] gitlab-ci: Extract crossbuild job templates to crossbuild-template.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 08/15] gitlab-ci: Extract DCO/style check jobs to checks.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19  5:26   ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-19 13:44     ` Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 09/15] gitlab-ci: Extract build stages to stages.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 10/15] gitlab-ci: Extract all default build/test jobs to buildtest.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19  5:39   ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-19 15:11   ` Alex Bennée
2021-05-11  7:19     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 11/15] gitlab-ci: Extract core container jobs to container-core.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19  5:42   ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [PATCH 12/15] gitlab-ci: Move current job set to qemu-project.yml Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [RFC PATCH 13/15] gitlab-ci: Switch to dynamically generated pipelines Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [RFC PATCH 14/15] gitlab-ci: Allow forks to use different set of jobs Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19  5:48   ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-19  9:40   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 10:09     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2021-04-19 10:10     ` Erik Skultety
2021-04-19 10:20       ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-19 10:36         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 10:48           ` Thomas Huth
2021-04-19 10:51             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 10:59               ` Thomas Huth
2021-05-11  6:48                 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-05-11 13:55                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-11 14:00                   ` Alex Bennée
2021-05-11 14:21                   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-05-13 19:01                   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19 10:47         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 10:44       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19 15:57   ` Alex Bennée
2021-04-19 16:22     ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 16:46       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-19 16:58         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-04-19 16:39     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-18 23:34 ` [NOTFORMERGE PATCH 15/15] gitlab-ci: Use my own set of jobs for CI pipeline Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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