Re: [PATCH] automation: avoid duplicated builds of staging branch

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 17/07/2023 2:09 pm, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> "staging" branch is mirrored (automatically or manually) to several
> repositories. Avoid building it several times to not waste runner
> resources.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com>
> ---
>  .gitlab-ci.yml | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> index c8bd7519d5fb..c3b05e32636b 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
> @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ stages:
>    - build
>    - test
>  
> +workflow:
> +  rules:
> +    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "staging" && $CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE != "xen-project"'
> +      when: never
> +    - when: always

If we're doing this for staging, we should include staging-* and
stable-*.  They're all the same from this point of view.

However, this does need double checking with the committers who use
gitlab regularly (CC'd).  This doesn't happen to interfere with my
commit workflow (I use a separate branch called for-staging), but I
can't talk for others.

~Andrew