Re: [PATCH] gitlab: skip cirrus jobs on master and stable branches

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 16/11/2021 12.27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On the primary QEMU repository we want the CI jobs to run on the staging
> branch as a gating CI test.
> 
> Cirrus CI has very limited job concurrency, so if there are too many
> jobs triggered they'll queue up and hit the GitLab CI job timeout before
> they complete on Cirrus.
> 
> If we let Cirrus jobs run again on the master branch immediately after
> merging from staging, that just increases the chances jobs will get
> queued and subsequently timeout.
> 
> The same applies for merges to the stable branches.
> 
> User forks meanwhile should be allowed to run Cirrus CI jobs freely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> index e7b25e7427..cc2f2e8906 100644
> --- a/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> +++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/cirrus.yml
> @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
>       - cat .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/$NAME.yml
>       - cirrus-run -v --show-build-log always .gitlab-ci.d/cirrus/$NAME.yml
>     rules:
> +    # Allow on 'staging' branch and 'stable-X.Y-staging' branches only
> +    - if: '$CI_PROJECT_NAMESPACE == "qemu-project" && $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH !~ /staging/'
> +      when: never
>       - if: "$CIRRUS_GITHUB_REPO && $CIRRUS_API_TOKEN"
>   
>   x64-freebsd-12-build:
> 

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>