Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] GitLab Gating CI: initial set of jobs, documentation and scripts

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 7/9/20 4:46 AM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> This is a mapping of Peter's "remake-merge-builds" and
> "pull-buildtest" scripts, gone through some updates, adding some build
> option and removing others.
> 
> The jobs currently cover the machines that the QEMU project owns, and that
> are setup and ready to run jobs:
> 
>  - Ubuntu 18.04 on S390x
>  - Ubuntu 20.04 on aarch64
> 
> During the development of this set of jobs, the GitLab CI was tested
> with many other architectures, including ppc64, s390x and aarch64,
> along with the other OSs (not included here):
> 
>  - Fedora 30
>  - FreeBSD 12.1
> 
> More information can be found in the documentation itself.
[...]
> diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> index c1ff24370b..f8dab788ea 100644
> --- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
> +++ b/docs/devel/testing.rst
> @@ -1003,3 +1003,150 @@ exercise as many corner cases as possible. It is a 
> useful test suite
>  to run to exercise QEMU's linux-user code::
>  
>    https://linux-test-project.github.io/
> +
> +CI
> +==
> +
> +QEMU has configurations enabled for a number of different CI services.
> +The most update information about them and their status can be found
> +at::
> +
> +   https://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/CI
> +
> +Gating CI
> +----------
> +
> +A Pull Requests will only to be merged if they successfully go through
> +a different set of CI jobs.  GitLab's CI is the service/framework used
> +for executing the gating jobs.
> +
> +The architecture of GitLab's CI service allows different machines to be
> +setup with GitLab's "agent", called gitlab-runner, which will take care
> +of running jobs created by events such as a push to a branch.

Now that GitLab announced the free tier time limit, it may be worth
mentioning (if set up) the CI pipeline can be skipped using:

  $ git push --push-option=ci.skip [...]