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This notice should stay as the first item in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
The following contents has to be considered as an extension over gitlab-ce contributing guidelines.
Currently we use a system of scoped labels to help us prioritize which MRs our team will review.
| Label | Meaning | Use Cases |
|---|---|---|
| ~"Review::P1" | Highest priority to review. | Indicates a merge request that might solve an urgent pain point for users, contributes to the strategic direction of Runner development as laid out by the Product team, or fixes a critical issue. A hard cap on the number of contributions labelled ~"Review::P1" is set at 3. |
| ~"Review::P2" | Important merge requests. | When a merge request is important, but has lower impact to customers when compared to merge requests labelled ~"Review::P1". |
| ~"Review::P3" | Default priority to review. | All incoming merge requests should default to this. |
Contributing new executors
We are no longer accepting or developing new executors for a few reasons listed below:
- Some executors require licensed software or hardware that GitLab Inc. doesn't have.
- Each new executor brings its own set of problems when it comes to testing it properly.
- Adding new executors can add new dependencies, which adds maintenance costs.
- Having a lot of executors adds to maintenance costs.
With GitLab 12.1, we introduced the custom executor, which will provide a way to create an executor of choice.
We're currently exploring how we can add builds for new and different hardware architectures. Adding and supporting new architectures brings added levels of complexity and may require hardware that GitLab Inc. doesn't have access to.
At the current time, new hardware architectures will only be considered if the following criteria are met:
- GitLab Inc. must be able to build and test for the new architecture on our Shared Runners on GitLab.com
- If adding support for the new architecture in the helper image, Docker must also support the architecture upstream
As we explore adding more architectures other requirements may come up.
We are currently discussing the ability of providing builds for architectures that we don't have the ability to support and we welcome contributions to that discussion.
We have some additional labels plus those defined in gitlab-ce workflow labels
- Additional subjects: ~cache, ~executors, ~"git operations"
- OS: ~"os::Linux" ~"os::MacOSX" ~"os:FreeBSD" ~"os::Windows"
- executor: ~"executor::docker" ~"executor::kubernetes" ~"executor::docker-machine" ~"executor::docker-machine" ~"executor::shell" ~"executor::parallels" ~"executor::virtualbox"