[ovirt-devel] [Important!][Action required!] CI-whitelist re-activated

[Martin Sivak]

> Finally realizing the potential for harm, we acted quickly to
> re-enable the whitelist mechanism. We made an effort to include
> current authors and maintainers, but we do not know everyone. People
> not included in the whitelist will see the following message when
> submitting patches:

How can the maintainer trigger the CI for a 3rd party patch? We won't
merge anything that didn't pass the tests first so we need a way to
trigger them.

--
Martin Sivak
oVirt / SLA

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 6:53 PM, Barak Korren <bkorren at redhat.com> wrote:
> TL;DR: If you are a patch author, please ask your project maintainer
> to have you added to the CI whitelist.
>
> The oVirt CI system tries to be a useful and powerful tool for patch
> authors and project maintainers. With the current CI-standards, power
> is placed in the hands of patch authors to make the system do almost
> anything.
>
> We try to be an "open" Open-Source project, so permission is given to
> anyone to open a Gerrit account and submit patches.
>
> The above opens the door to the CI system being maliciously exploited,
> so some countermeasure was needed. The builders of the CI system
> foresaw this and have put in place a white-list mechanism that makes
> the CI system only run jobs for patches that come from listed authors.
>
> In recent years the CI system had been re-engineered with the push
> towards the CI standards, and the whitelist mechanism was rendered
> non-active.
>
> Finally realizing the potential for harm, we acted quickly to
> re-enable the whitelist mechanism. We made an effort to include
> current authors and maintainers, but we do not know everyone. People
> not included in the whitelist will see the following message when
> submitting patches:
>
>     To avoid overloading the infrastructure, a  whitelist for
>     running gerrit triggered jobs has been set in place, if
>     you feel like you should be in it, please contact infra at
>     ovirt dot org
>
> If you come across this message, please ask the project maintainer to
> send a message to the infra team asking for you to added to the CI
> whitelist. We'd rather not receive direct messages from individual
> contributors, because we do not know everyone and cannot verify
> sources.
>
> We (the infra team) know that the current mechanism can sound
> draconian and be inconvenient. But we had to put something in place
> quickly. Please join the discussion at [1] to improve it.
>
> [1]: https://ovirt-jira.atlassian.net/browse/OVIRT-1154
>
> --
> Barak Korren
> bkorren at redhat.com
> RHCE, RHCi, RHV-DevOps Team
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