[PATCH v2 0/5] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing

[Jarkko Sakkinen]

On Thu Jan 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM EET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Thu Jan 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM EET, Vignesh Raman wrote:
> > We are working towards creating a generic, upstream GitLab-CI pipeline
> > (kci-gitlab) that will replace DRM-CI [1]. The proposed GitLab-CI pipeline
> > is designed with a distributed infrastructure model, making it possible
> > to run on any gitLab instance. We plan to leverage KernelCI [2] as the
> > backend, utilizing its hardware, rootfs, test plans, and KCIDB [3]
> > integration.
>
> Why can't you keep the next version of your great pipeline outside the
> kernel tree?
>
> If there is a legit motivation for doing that, why it needs to be bound
> to Gitlab? Why can't you make script callable from any CI?

To add, most of the distributions have their CI pipelines but they don't
proactively push them over here.

BR, Jarkko