Re: [PATCH 0/3] kci-gitlab: Introducing GitLab-CI Pipeline for Kernel Testing

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 07:25:11 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:20:41PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 12:53:38PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> > On 29/02/2024 12:41, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:19:19PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 01:10:16PM +0200, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> > >
> > >>> Of course. You're also welcome to join the #kernelci channel on libera.chat.
> > >
> > >> Isn't that a bit pointless if it's no the main IM channel ?
> > >
> > > It *was* the original channel and still gets some usage (mostly started
> > > by me admittedly since I've never joined slack for a bunch of reasons
> > > that make it hassle), IIRC the Slack was started because there were some
> > > interns who had trouble figuring out IRC and intermittent connectivity
> > > but people seem to have migrated.
> >
> > In fact it was initially created for the members of the Linux
> > Foundation project only, which is why registration is moderated
> > for emails that don't have a domain linked to a member (BTW not
> > any Google account will just work e.g. @gmail.com is moderated,
> > only @google.com for Google employees isn't).
> >
> > And yes IRC is the "least common denominator" chat platform.
> > Maybe having a bridge between the main Slack channel and IRC
> > would help.
>
> If the gitlab CI pipeline proposal wants to be considered for inclusion
> in the kernel, I think it needs to switch to a free software solution
> for its *main* communication channels.

And to clarify, I didn't meant the kernel CI project, but only the
gitlab CI pipeline for the Linux kernel project. I don't know how
tightly integrated the two projects are though.

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Regards,

Laurent Pinchart