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

[Leonardo Brás]

On Fri, 2025-01-24 at 13:52 +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:12:50 +0200
> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> escreveu:
> 
> > > It's been a few years since I first thought on finding a good way of helping
> > > kernel developers testing their patches, while making use of the free runner
> > > minutes Gitlab offers. It can greatly simplify the testing for people who are
> > > new to kernel development, or students trying to understand it better.
> > > 
> > > And this patchset allows that to happen :)
> > > 
> > > Actually, I spoke to Helen last year, and to enable it to run on the free
> > > Gitlab-CI runners, there is a small extra patch which is needed:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240327013055.139494-2-leobras@redhat.com/  
> 
> Sounds interesting!

Thanks! :)

> 
> > Gitlab as an open-source software project (the community edition) is one
> > thing, but can we please avoid advertising specific proprietary services
> > in the kernel documentation ?
> 
> Every time Gitlab is mentioned, the brand of the company that
> developed it and has been providing proprietary services is also
> advertised. If you're not happy with that, you should move to use
> a git forge developed by some open source community.
> 
> The way I see, the best would be if the CI integration could work
> with more than one type of forge and being able to use any
> free Git??b-CI runners that would be available for developers to
> use, as this would allow testing more subsystems with CI, thus
> increasing code quality.

Completely agree!
I think that this Gitlab contribution will set a base for implementing other
forges / CI systems as well, and allow us to make use of those resources for
better kernel testing. 

Thanks!
Leo

> 
> Thanks,
> Mauro