Re: GitLab CI setup file in scratch/tzz/gitlab

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 27.04.2017 17:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I actually meant the 'apt' commands.  It's true that some other
> distributions besides Debian support that, but AFAIK they have their
> own commands to the same effects.

Ubuntu also uses 'apt', and it's a popular choice for CI servers.

> OK, but why should the Emacs repository keep this file and maintain
> it?

It's a common practice for the projects using Travis or GitLab CI.

> It looks simple enough for the interested users to have it on
> their systems,

Would you ask all interested users to maintain their own configurations, 
or even installations, of Hydra as well?

It sounds silly. We should have an accessible, friendly CI instance for 
all our users.

> and GitLab looks like a full repository anyway, so
> maybe the file should be maintained there?

And then what? Create endless merge commits in its repo? Or endlessly 
rebase the patch? Neither sounds very smart or necessary, and I've no 
idea how easy that would be to automate.

In both cases, HEAD will become different from the tip of master in the 
Emacs repository, and build failure emails will become less useful.