Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing

Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-01-24T12:52:15Z

Em Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:12:50 +0200
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> escreveu:

> > It's been a few years since I first thought on finding a good way of helping
> > kernel developers testing their patches, while making use of the free runner
> > minutes Gitlab offers. It can greatly simplify the testing for people who are
> > new to kernel development, or students trying to understand it better.
> >
> > And this patchset allows that to happen :)
> >
> > Actually, I spoke to Helen last year, and to enable it to run on the free
> > Gitlab-CI runners, there is a small extra patch which is needed:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240327013055.139494-2-leobras@redhat.com/

Sounds interesting!

> Gitlab as an open-source software project (the community edition) is one
> thing, but can we please avoid advertising specific proprietary services
> in the kernel documentation ?

Every time Gitlab is mentioned, the brand of the company that
developed it and has been providing proprietary services is also
advertised. If you're not happy with that, you should move to use
a git forge developed by some open source community.

The way I see, the best would be if the CI integration could work
with more than one type of forge and being able to use any
free Git??b-CI runners that would be available for developers to
use, as this would allow testing more subsystems with CI, thus
increasing code quality.

Thanks,
Mauro