CI system maintainability

[Andrius Štikonas]

+1 for this. I think running tests before merging is more acceptable than having mandatory reviews.

On 29 March 2019 11:10:52 GMT+00:00, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan <ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>A Merge Request in GitLab does not necessarily imply the need for a
>review by e person. It can just run a pipeline to validate that the
>code isn't broken. If the pipeline fails, the merge button is not
>available.
>
>We use GitLab at work and we have it set up like this:
>
>* Main branches (develop/master/release/etc) are proteted and cannot be
>directly commited/pushed to, and only updated through MR
>* Each project defines what it's build/validate pipeline is
>(Jenkinsfile in project repo)
>* The pipeline is executed uppon creating the MR
>* if the Pipeline passes, the MR can be merged to the mainline branch
>
>This way we ensure that no code gets in that fails the build or with
>tests failing.
>
>P.S. We also store the build artifacts in a binary repository from
>where other pipelines can fetch them to be used in compiling other
>projects.
>
>P.P.S. This is the "DevOps" process used in most companies. The tools
>might differ, but the process is the same. It's the same for most FOSS
>projects as well.
>
>Regards,
>Ovidiu
>
>În ziua de joi, 28 martie 2019, la 10:29:22 EET, Kevin Ottens a scris:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> On Thursday, 28 March 2019 09:16:11 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> > Please note that the commits in this instance were pushed without
>> > review, so restrictions on merge requests wouldn't make a
>difference
>> > in this case unfortunately.
>> 
>> Maybe it's about time to make reviews mandatory... I know it's
>unpopular in 
>> KDE, and I advocated for "don't force a tool if you can get someone
>to look at 
>> your screen or pair with you" in the past. Clearly this compromise
>gets 
>> somewhat exploited and that's especially bad in the case of a fragile
>and 
>> central component like KDE PIM.
>> 
>> Regards.
>> 

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