Re: [BuildStream] Gitlab Merge Trains

[Laurence Urhegyi <laurence urhegyi codethink co uk>]

Hi,

It was me who used the term 'broad consensus on irc' - and I was 
referring to those on irc at a specific time. I actually used it as I 
was encouraging Alexandru to bring this to the list specifically so that 
all contributors could see it, not just those on irc. So I think 
everyone is on the same page here :)

These changes are made in the right spirit, just as the marge-bot 
changes that I introduced were also.

Cheers,
Laurence



On 2019-07-23 16:27, Sander Striker via buildstream-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I do not know what "a broad consensus on IRC" means.  Consensus
> between who?  I know for a fact that part of the community cannot
> easily be on IRC and therefor isn't.
>
> On the topic of Marge Bot and switching to a more general feature, I
> think that is fine, with appropriate notice.  Maybe also with a more
> catchy subject line like "Retiring Marge-Bot, Workflow Change".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:06 PM Alexandru Fazakas via buildstream-list
> <buildstream-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Due to a broad consensus on IRC, with Gitlab's addition of Merge
> > Trains[1]
> > we are moving away from using Marge Bot. The changes to the code
> > base
> > itself are not massive. We're no longer running the usual tests
> > (e.g. everything
> > other than overnight ones) on master, as they would have already
> > been ran
> > on their branch previously.
> >
> > Regarding developer work flow: instead of assigning Marge Bot to an
> > accepted
> > MR, we should just add the MR to a merge train (or start one should
> > none be
> > already running), as explained in the documentation below.
> >
> > This change should make accepting and merging multiple MR's at once
> > easier to do and manage with Gitlab's support.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Alex
> >
> > [1] Gitlab merge trains [1]
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> Links:
> ------
> [1]
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/merge_request_pipelines/pipelines_for_merged_results/merge_trains/
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