[DRE-maint] Bug#895648: [gitlab] Add keyword that allows the inclusion of external YAML files

[Pirate Praveen]

On April 14, 2018 6:21:00 AM GMT+05:30, Agustin Henze <tin at aayy.com.ar> wrote:
>Package: gitlab
>Severity: normal
>
>Hi, this feature is not included in the CE version. Here
>https://gitlab.com/help/ci/yaml/README#include it says the following
>
>```
>Introduced in [GitLab Edition
>Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/) 10.5.
>Available for Starter, Premium and Ultimate
>[versions](https://about.gitlab.com/products/) since 10.6.
>```
>
>The MR that adds this feature is here
>https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/4262 and the
>related
>issue
>https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20868#note_14082877. As
>you can see it says
>
>"Since this is targeting larger organizations, it will be `EE
>Premium`."
>
>Debian is a large organization... Can we ask for this feature as Debian
>Project
>to Gitlab? or we have to patch it and maintain a fork of gitlab
>forever? I
>understand that the policy is not patching gitlab if possible. But I
>think in
>this case, it would be really useful for us. Because we are going to
>have
>really similar pipelines between projects and I am sure we can unify
>this and
>maintain one generic pipeline for most of the packages or at least per
>maintainer. I already have two projects with the same CI pipeline at
>this
>moment. I'll be migrating the rest of my packages and they will share
>the same
>pipeline so I have to keep a copy updated on every project...
>
>PS: I've created an issue on salsa[0] for this. I think it applies as a
>feature
>request. Please let me know if here is the correct place to discuss
>this and
>I'll close the issue on salsa.

Salsa is the right place, as salsa.debian. org does not use the gitlab package.

>[0] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues/64

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