Re: Reminder: action required when updating dependencies or build options

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2021-01-14 at 11:57 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-13 at 15:57 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:28 pm, Philip Withnall 
> <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> > Given that you’ve just committed to submitting MRs and waiting for 
> > CI
> > to pass, rather than pushing directly to master, perhaps this rule
> > should be rethought?
>
> Hm... as long as we have permission to merge the MR after CI has 
> passed, or to bypass the CI if it's broken due to a preexisting
> issue,
> then we should be good. However, I'm not sure GitLab allows this?
> E.g. we discovered yesterday that I didn't have permission to commit
> to
> gnome-remote-desktop until Jonas played with the settings; there, I
> had
> created a MR, but only project maintainers were able to merge it.

This is likely a migration problem, as the project was originally in
Jonas' personal namespace, right? All the projects under the GNOME
namespace should have the same settings allowing anyone in the project
to commit anything and merge anywhere, for better or for worse...

> I think, to do this you would effectively need to add the release
> team
> with Maintainer privileges to all projects (or, I suppose have a
> Release Team account for this purpose).
>
> I suppose that should be pretty simple to hook into the .doap
> synchronisation. Not sure how people people feel about having the
> Release team marked as a maintainer everywhere.
>
>
> Note that I am not really concerned about anyone merging a branch
> even
> if CI is failing without having a good reason to do so.
>
> Benjamin
>
> The worst-case scenario would be: need to revert a commit, CI is 
> already broken due to some preexisting unrelated issue that we don't 
> know how to fix, can't land revert via MR because it requires CI to 
> pass, can't change the setting to allow bypassing CI because the only
> way to get permission to change the setting is to update the doap, 
> can't update the doap without first passing CI....

Or file issue, pin version of broken module in your build scripts, wait
until maintainer is available to fix everything.

Or create a branch (and an MR) and point your build scripts at the
branch.

Or ask the sysadmins to verify the module's permissions.