On 19-09-10 14 h 09, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > > Gregor Riepl: >> >>> I am not a fan of pointing to a moving target with the "include" statement: >>> >>> include: >>> - https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/salsa-ci.yml >>> - >>> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/raw/master/pipeline-jobs.yml >>> >>> "master" will change, and that can break CI jobs where nothing in the >>> local repo has changed. >> >> It does have pros and cons. >> >> The good: Additional build/verification steps or even automatic deployment >> can >> be added by the Salsa team at some point without requiring changes to each >> repository. >> >> The bad: As you mentioned, a moving target can be bad and cause inadvertent >> build failures and other issues that are out of the hands of maintainers. >> >> The ugly: Pulling in external scripts always bears a certain risk. They may >> go >> away at some point or cause potentially dangerous side effects. >> >> However, I do think that a standardised CI pipeline is very useful. Consider >> that the buildd infrastructure also uses a standardised build process that >> packages cannot simply get away from. If this process is replicated on Salsa, >> with an external script or not, people will quickly get a "glimpse" of what >> would happen on buildd. The need to manually adapt the CI script every time >> something changes in the buildd process is a heavy burden to bear and will >> easily lead to people "forgetting" to update their scripts. That kind of >> defeats the purpose. >> >> Also, consider that the Salsa CI pipeline is not an absolute source of truth, >> but a tool for developers and maintainers to quickly spot issues with their >> packages. If an autobuild fails, it's not the end of the world. It just means >> you have to go check what's going on. >> > > I totally agree about having a standardized build process and CI > pipeline. And I agree that the CI builds are a tool, not the final > release build process.
I think we all agree on that :) I'd like to start working on a draft modification to the DPMT and PAPT to add a part about using Gitlab CI, but I'm not sure what the process to change those files is... How were previous modifications dealt with? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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