[Mesa-dev] [Intel-gfx] gitlab.fd.o financial situation and impact on services

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2020-02-28 12:02 p.m., Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 10:43 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 10:06, Erik Faye-Lund
>> <erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 11:40 +0200, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
>>>> Yeah, changes on vulkan drivers or backend compilers should be
>>>> fairly
>>>> sandboxed.
>>>>
>>>> We also have tools that only work for intel stuff, that should
>>>> never
>>>> trigger anything on other people's HW.
>>>>
>>>> Could something be worked out using the tags?
>>>
>>> I think so! We have the pre-defined environment variable
>>> CI_MERGE_REQUEST_LABELS, and we can do variable conditions:
>>>
>>> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyvariablesexceptvariables
>>>
>>> That sounds like a pretty neat middle-ground to me. I just hope
>>> that
>>> new pipelines are triggered if new labels are added, because not
>>> everyone is allowed to set labels, and sometimes people forget...
>>
>> There's also this which is somewhat more robust:
>> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/2569
> 
> I'm not sure it's more robust, but yeah that a useful tool too.
> 
> The reason I'm skeptical about the robustness is that we'll miss
> testing if this misses a path.

Surely missing a path will be less likely / often to happen compared to
an MR missing a label. (Users which aren't members of the project can't
even set labels for an MR)


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