Re: Salsa.d.o: Please support the implementation request for a global config option to change the default for "Custom CI config path" in Gitlab

[Inaki Malerba <inaki@malerba.space>]

On 27/7/19 09:40, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 06:01:07PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> This was requested in the past in
>> https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues/26, and some people
>> (including me) interpreted the reply as "no, but only because upstream
>> doesn't have that feature". Was that interpretation wrong?
> 
>> The default of ./.gitlab.yml is problematic for Salsa *because* it's
>> the upstream default, and git repositories on Salsa are most commonly
>> used for Debian packaging where we try to minimize delta vs upstream
>> source code:
> 
> The setting is per project, so it is available.  For now I say that
> changing this globally is too disruptive.

Of course it's a disruptive change, but what is the purpose of Salsa?

I think it's a tool *for* Debian and Debian Developers. Most of the
users surely will prefer that the default path for the CI configuration
on Debian projects is a Debian compatible path. Maybe we could open a
thread to discuss this on d-devel, if some day we have the feature to
make this change, but it's is not even planned yet.

Anyway, I think the best alternative for making this change less
disruptive is going to be group-level definitions[0] of this kind of
configurations.

Please, everyone interested on discussing this feature please comment
the issue on the Gitlab issue tracker.

0_ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/41764#note_54911766


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