8.12 CI Plan

I would also thinking about redesigning Runners view. I would concentrate on showing a list of runners, with a current build queue. We could then get rid of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/builds and replace it with Runners which makes much more sense. Builds and runners view is one of the last views that did not get an overhaul recently. The information that they do present are valid, but kind of doesn't make sense to be shown given that we have Pipelines.

There's a proposal just for extending a Runners view: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18178. I think that we should move one step further with these changes.

This will also allow us to prepare an UI and think how it would look like if we finally decide to manage CI runners from within GitLab.

Added ~19173 label

Milestone changed to %8.12

@markpundsack let me know when we could talk about this, we need to decide what makes most sense :)

mentioned in issue #21456 (moved)

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@ayufan I'm not opposed to #18178 (moved), but I'm not sure it's as urgent/important as other changes. Is it solving particularly important customer needs? Also, the goal of #18178 (moved) seems to be about understanding queue delays holding back running a pipeline, rather than investigating runner queues. I want to make sure we try to solve the underlying problem. i.e. redesigning the runner views might be part of the solution, but isn't a goal itself. e.g. when I look at a merge request's pipelines, and I see it's pending, I'd like to see how long it has been queued for, and some information to help me understand how long it might be queued for such as the number of jobs to be processed and the number of runners processing them.

For that matter, when I look at a finished pipeline, I should be able to see how long it was queued for, and even graph a history of queue times to help in capacity planning of runners.

Show all pipelines for upcoming Merge Request Versions

@ayufan What does this mean?

@ayufan I'd like to consider adding #21480 (moved) if it's a small-ish amount of work.

I'd love to see #19992 (closed), just to finish it up instead of leaving it dangling. It might help solve "Show deployed ago on Merge Requests when visualising Environments" too. Or vice versa.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21126 already has a MR so may as well add it. :)

#20367 (closed) is part of the idea-to-production vision. We don't have any concrete proposals for it, but I'd like to think about how we can move it forward.

@ayufan I imagine Review Apps will be the big feature, but have no idea how much effort it will take, especially since we don't have a solid proposal yet.

Some priorities I consider (not necessarily in order):

What else is needed for the idea-to-production vision? Are there other APIs needed for ChatOps integration? Can we trigger manual actions via API? Environment-specific variables, activity
What moves us towards automatic deploys of gitlab-ce?
What moves the CI/CD vision forward?
Can we polish the existing feature set? (e.g. #21126 (closed), #18178 (moved), Show builds in context of pipeline, #5983 (closed), #3976 (closed))
Can we do to speed up CI/CD pipelines? (e.g. sticky runners, automatic parallelization)
What can we do to make customers happy? (list)
What can we do to ship EE features for CI? (e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/933)

UX Candidates:

#20863 (moved)
Showing pipelines in context of commits and merge requests (e.g. sibling vs peer) (No issue yet)
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20882
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20892
#18054 (moved) (not as pressing, but was a stretch issue last release and fits nicely with propagating pipelines everywhere)

/cc @dimitrieh

Also, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19991 was already labeled with 8.12.

Marked the task Support running builds on Kubernetes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/277 (ready to be merged) as completed

As a developer living in a java world, my experience is that it is not even possible to see the test results. Focusing on test coverage is ignoring the real problem. Hence, #13227 (moved) should have very high priority.

We are keen to have some movement on the support for private submodule (#18107 (closed)). We will keep using Teamcity until this is available.

@joshua.lamorie

Use per-build token to act as an user triggering build

This item tries to address that.

@markpundsack

Show all pipelines for upcoming Merge Request Versions

This is something that is being refactored by Dimitryi, we should keep a look at these changes and make sure that Pipelines for Merge Requests doesn't break.

Marked the task Curve the lines in the pipeline graph: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21126 !6033 (merged) as completed

mentioned in issue #20135 (moved)

mentioned in issue #21660 (moved)

Marked the task Add download buttons for downloading artifacts for a branch (@godfat): #4255 (closed), #14419 (closed), !5142 (merged) (ready to be merged) as completed

Added Slack App to key features.

added https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21604 to the original issue body, was already picked up by annabel

@markpundsack Shouldn't #5983 (closed) be part of key features too, and bolded? To me it's the number one for the whole UX/Frontend list. Since the migration to GitLab, this is the screen I constantly open and refresh.

@Nowaker thanks for your feedback. I agree that getting the pipelines page to be realtime is pretty important, but it's not the "top" priority for us right now. Also, we only have one front-end developer on the CI team, and she's on vacation for a big portion of 8.12 so we can't load that much into this release. Sorry!

Lastly, I know it's not clear, but we use bold to indicate issues with WIP (such as a merge request). I'll update the description to say that.

@markpundsack Thanks!

Marked the task Update artifacts_size for old builds (!5076 (closed)) (needs more discussion) as completed

Marked the task Have CI automatically test migration paths (@zj): #14549 (closed): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4874 (blocked by Omnibus changes) as completed

Marked the task Add an API to list manual actions on Environments and Deployments (required for Cog integration): gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!6094 (requires only Backend), as completed

This issue keeps giving me TODOs and I don't know why

Marked the task Improve pipeline duration: #18260 (closed) !6084 (merged) (@godfat) as completed

Marked the task Fix artifact downloading with Windows cmd.exe shell: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/284 (@nick.thomas) as completed

Marked the task Improve CI tests to include integration tests for different architectures: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/276 as completed

Marked the task Refactor Slack service to use pipeline_hooks: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5525 #22003 (closed) as completed

The switch to docker/docker/client might need to wait until the next docker release.

Marked the task Collapse similar builds on Pipeline Graph: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21286: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6242 (requires Backend to return a list of grouped builds, requires Frontend to implement collapsing and pop-over), as completed

Marked the task ****Add support for Review Apps: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21971: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6323 (requires Backend to receive an URL of app, requires Frontend to visualise it), as completed

Marked the task Fix download artifacts button link: #22294 (closed) !6407 (merged) as completed

Marked the task Use per-build token to act as an user triggering build: #18994 (closed) (#18993 (moved), #18107 (closed)): !5735 (closed) (requires review of concept and Backend to prepare changes), as completed

Marked the task Show stages for build in valid order: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6430 as completed

Marked the task Limit number of shown environments for Merge Request: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6438 as completed

Marked the task Fix handling of SSL bundles: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/299 (@nick.thomas) as completed

Marked the task Show all pipelines for upcoming Merge Request Versions: #21889 (closed) !6414 (merged) as completed

Milestone changed to %8.13

Status changed to closed

Mentioned in issue #24141 (moved)

mentioned in issue gitlab#5961

8.12 CI Plan

The key features (includes a Frontend and Backend) (sorted by severity):

The planned UX/Frontend improvements (@annabeldunstone @dimitrieh):

The planned Backend improvements (@ayufan @godfat @grzesiek):

The planned GitLab Runner improvements (@ayufan @tmaczukin @nick.thomas):

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8.12 CI Plan

The key features (includes a Frontend and Backend) (sorted by severity):

The planned UX/Frontend improvements (@annabeldunstone @dimitrieh):

The planned Backend improvements (@ayufan @godfat @grzesiek):

The planned GitLab Runner improvements (@ayufan @tmaczukin @nick.thomas):

Didn't happen

Left-overs:

Likely not to happen:

Links

Activity