Re: [Debian-salsa-ci] Enabling salsa-ci on all Debian Python Team repos

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 01:52:09PM +0200, Iñaki Malerba wrote:
> [...]
> > Perhaps there's an opportunity to automate and getting wider CI usage.
> 
> One of the biggest issues we had when a team adopted the pipeline was
> DDOSing of the instance because of the multiple pipelines generated when
> pusing the .gitlab-ci.yml file to all the projects.
> 
> If you're planning to do this, please:
> 
> - Use the API and configure the 'CI/CD configuration file' project
>   field, as you mentioned in the email. This won't generate a pipeline
>   when configured but only on the next push.

Indeed; setting the configuration file to
  recipes/debian.yml@salsa-ci-team/pipeline
will avoid any need to touch the actual repository.

> - If you need create the .gitlab-ci.yml file, please use the
>   `ci.skip`[1] push option.

And that should only be needed if the configuration is non-standard.

> Thanks, and good luck :)

Best wishes,

   Julian