Provide an admin option to enable CI globally

Currently, with the creation of a new project you have to enable the CI service in the project's settings manually.

It would be cool if there was an option to globally enable it under the admin area.

cc @ayufan @sytses @dzaporozhets

Wow, CI should be enabled by default, with an option to disable. Can this be fixed for new and existing installations @ayufan ?

@axil @sytses

The CI is enabled when .gitlab-ci.yml is pushed to the repository.

The shared runners setting is waiting in !1738 (merged).

@ayufan ok thanks, I will add that to the docs.

@ayufan What do you mean with enabled when .gitlab-ci.yml is pushed? Do you mean that by default the checkbox in project settings is not checked? If so I think that is a usability problem and a problem for people that don't want CI enabled.

@sytses

Yes, by default the GitLab CI Service is unchecked. It's enabled automatically on first .gitlab-ci.yml push.

It would make sense to enable it by default. I'll look into it.

Closing in favor of gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#3827

Status changed to closed

mentioned in merge request !14785