[Patchew-devel] Use patchew to push successfully applied series to GitLab

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/09/20 10:16, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> patchew is currently pushing successfully applied series
> (using the cover Message-ID as tag) to GitHub.
> This is very handy (no need to apply patches manually):
> https://github.com/patchew-project/qemu/tags
> 
> Can we push the same that to an equivalent GitLab account?
> We could then have a script replying to the series if the
> series fails CI. Doing so would save reviewer/tester time
> (I'd rather have a series not failing on our CI tests before
> starting to review/test it).

Yes, we could.  Indeed we could also look at the pipeline result instead
of needing Patchew's custom testers (using a webhook).  It would be a
bit on the heavy side for GitLab's resources; while right now they're
still providing unlimited CI time, in principle the "gold" tier provides
"only" 833 hours and a full CI run takes more or less 1.

So it would work great but we would have to set up our own runners,
and/or have a cheaper pipeline for this gating CI.  Is that possible to
configure in Gitlab?

Paolo