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

[Erik Skultety]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:40:53AM +0100, 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.
> 
> IMHO any per-contributor overhead needs to not involve committing
> stuff to their git branches, that isn't intended to go upstream.

Not just that, ideally, they should also run all the upstream workloads before
submitting a PR or posting patches because they'd have to respin because of a
potential failure in upstream pipelines anyway.

Erik