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

Nicolas Dufresne
2025-01-24T14:26:46Z

Hi,

Le vendredi 24 janvier 2025 à 15:00 +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov a écrit :
> On 1/24/25 2:16 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri Jan 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM EET, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> >
> > I don't think we should have any of this in the mainline kernel.
> >
> > One angle is that "no regressions rule" applies also to the shenanigans.
> >
> > Do we really spend energy on this proprietary crap to the eternity?
>
> This is not getting included into the kernel itself, the contributed code is,
> of course, open-source. And yes it would execute just fine on the fully
> open-source community-edition GitLab. I don't think "no regressions rule"
> should apply here. This is for developers only, and is a template for making
> your own pipeline mostly, with pieces which can be reused.

Perhpas worth clarifying that Media and DRM subsystem have opted for the
Freedesktop instance. This instance is running the Open Source version of
Gitlab, with hundreds of CI runners contributed and shared among many projects
(which includes Mesa, GStreamer, Wayland, Pipewire, libcamera, just to name
few).

Nicolas