Re: [PATCH] automation: avoid duplicated builds of staging branch

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Andrew, Oleksii,

Please see below.

It looks like you have configured your personal repositories to mirror
upstream Xen:

https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/olkur/xen
https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen

Make sure that the option "Trigger pipelines for mirror updates" is
unselected.

If you setup the mirror a long time ago, you might want to stop the
mirror and start it again.

I have just done the same for fusa/xen-integration: I had to go to
settings->repository, stop the existing mirror, and create a new one
making sure "Trigger pipelines for mirror updates" is off.

Cheers,

Stefano



On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:49:49PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 05:14:01PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 04:42:11PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2023, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 02:14:14PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > > > > > > > On 17/07/2023 2:09 pm, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > > > > > > > "staging" branch is mirrored (automatically or manually) to 
> > > > > > > > > several
> > > > > > > > > repositories. Avoid building it several times to not waste 
> > > > > > > > > runner
> > > > > > > > > resources.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi Marek,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Let me try to understand the use-case a bit better. You would like 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > following "staging" branch to run a full pipeline:
> > > > > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > But if someone under xen-project/people is mirroring
> > > > > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen, this patch is attempting to 
> > > > > > skip the
> > > > > > additional pipeline. For instance, if I am mirroring staging in my
> > > > > > personal repo:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/sstabellini/xen
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We are skipping the additional pipeline there.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Is that correct? If so, it would be easier to ask everyone to make 
> > > > > > sure
> > > > > > they have "Trigger pipelines for mirror updates" unselected:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/mirror/pull.html#trigger-pipelines-for-mirror-updates
> > > > > 
> > > > > If that's set in gitlab as pull mirror (instead of push from somewhere
> > > > > else), then that indeed may be enough. But is it really in all those
> > > > > cases?
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, it is an option in the pull mirror, by default should be unselected
> > > > I believe.
> > > 
> > > Well, if that's the case, either it got manually enabled on those 4 (?)
> > > forks, or those are using something else for mirroring the staging
> > > branch (in which case, the setting would not help). I can't see this
> > > part of the settings in other's repositories, so I don't know.
> > 
> > Do you know the name of those 4 forks? I can help figure it out.
> 
> Looking at "activity" view on gitlab, I see those:
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/fusa/xen-integration
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/olkur/xen
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen
> 
> There are few more that have staging branch almost up to date, but seems
> to be pushed manually (based on it being not fully up to date) and less
> often.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> Invisible Things Lab
>