[libvirt PATCH v3 0/3] Propose a simple mechanism on how to disable pipeline jobs

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 16:15 +0100, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > From time to time it happens that some of the distros for which we run our
> pipelines break (or the images we pull break). Because we don't have dedicated
> maintainers for the jobs/runners, we can only employ the best effort approach
> wrt to making the pipeline green again when we're positive the problem doesn't
> lie in libvirt.
> For jobs that are broken for quite some time we should opt to disable them
> unconditionally unless a volunteer dedicates the time to either fix it or the
> matter gets fixed on its own in time (e.g. updated container images).
> 
> v1: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-January/msg00573.html
> v2: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2021-January/msg00672.html
> 
> Since v2:
>     - renamed all the template jobs according to the review comments
>     - added 'rules' for container jobs as well
>     - fixed the env variable naming inconsistency that somehow made it to the
>       v1 patches
> 
> Erik Skultety (3):
>   gitlab-ci.yml: Replace template anchors with extends
>   gitlab-ci.yml: Convert only/except to the rules syntax
>   gitlab-ci.yml: Add an explicit env variable to mark a job as broken
> 
>  .gitlab-ci.yml | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>

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