Re: [RFC PATCH 14/15] gitlab-ci: Allow forks to use different set of jobs

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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.

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


Regards,
Daniel
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