Re: [Tech Topic] Integrating GitLab into the Red Hat kernel workflow

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

Hi Don,

On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 05:19:51PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> Submission #89:
> 
> The Red Hat kernel team recently converted their RHEL workflow from
> PatchWork to GitLab. This talk will discuss what the new workflow looks like
> with integrated CI and reduced emails. New tooling had to be created to
> assist the developer and reviewer. Webhooks were utilized to autoamte as
> much of the process as possible making it easy for a maintainer to track
> progress of each submitted change. Finally using CKI, every submitted change
> has to pass CI checks before it can be merged.
> 
> We faced many challenges especially around reviewing changes. Resolving
> those led to a reduction of email usage and an increase in cli tools. Demos
> of those tools will be included.

If gitlab is used in this context (I'm talking about reviews here, not
CI) as a transport mechanism for structured data handled by CLI tools,
what would prevent us from developing similar tools on top of less
centralized and proprietary transport mechanism ?

> Attendees will leave with an understanding how to convert or supplement
> their workflow with GitLab.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart