[libvirt PATCH 1/2] gitlab-ci.yaml: Introduce a variable to disable long broken jobs

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> Unfortunately GitLab doesn't have a different mechanism on how to mark
> jobs as skipped or disabled apart from the 'only'/'except' pragmas.
> Use the 'except' pragma for the job templates to skip jobs which define
> the DISABLE_JOB variable.

What's wrong with using

   when: never  (or manual to let devs force it from the UI)

or

   allow_failure: true

for any jobs we have problem with.


Regards,
Daniel
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