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Message-ID: <20250124130021.GA6853@pendragon.ideasonboard.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:00:21 +0200
From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for
 Kernel Testing

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 01:52:03PM +0100, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:12:50 +0200 Laurent Pinchart escreveu:
> 
> > > It's been a few years since I first thought on finding a good way of helping
> > > kernel developers testing their patches, while making use of the free runner
> > > minutes Gitlab offers. It can greatly simplify the testing for people who are
> > > new to kernel development, or students trying to understand it better.
> > > 
> > > And this patchset allows that to happen :)
> > > 
> > > Actually, I spoke to Helen last year, and to enable it to run on the free
> > > Gitlab-CI runners, there is a small extra patch which is needed:
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240327013055.139494-2-leobras@redhat.com/  
> 
> Sounds interesting!
> 
> > Gitlab as an open-source software project (the community edition) is one
> > thing, but can we please avoid advertising specific proprietary services
> > in the kernel documentation ?
> 
> Every time Gitlab is mentioned, the brand of the company that
> developed it and has been providing proprietary services is also
> advertised. If you're not happy with that, you should move to use
> a git forge developed by some open source community.

I'm fine mentioning the gitlab community edition, I'm not fine
advertising gitlab.com SaaS in the kernel source tree.

> The way I see, the best would be if the CI integration could work
> with more than one type of forge and being able to use any
> free Git??b-CI runners that would be available for developers to
> use, as this would allow testing more subsystems with CI, thus
> increasing code quality.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart