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@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > 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
