Sri Ramkrishna created an issue #343:
Hi Infra folks: I'm working on the extensions rebooted initiative - and I've gotten around to where I have a container that will run gnome-shell headless and be able to load an extension for testing. It does a simple loading test to see if it breaks or not. But to get further I need to start putting this into a ci pipeline.
The container does not use docker unfortunately, but podman - this is because podman is optimized to use systemd and so it is a lot easier to use podman/buildah to build these container images than I would with docker of which information is somewhat sparse.
I am hoping that this is not too painful. As I understand it my research tells me that we need to use a custom executor: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/custom.html in order for this work.
I will also add that this container is using all distro versions of gnome-shell and at some point in the near future that we will want to start using images built using buildstream so that we can start using pre-release versions of gnome-shell for testing. For now, we will do tests on extensions near release but I would love to see us be able to test extensions on a per-commit basis or even on MRs so that we know breakages ahead of time.
The initiative is documented here - https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/extensions-rebooted -