Re: [libvirt PATCH 1/2] gitlab-ci.yaml: Introduce a variable to disable long broken jobs

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:53:49PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:42:54PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > > Unfortunately GitLab doesn't have a different mechanism on how to mark > > jobs as skipped or disabled apart from the 'only'/'except' pragmas. > > Use the 'except' pragma for the job templates to skip jobs which define > > the DISABLE_JOB variable. > > What's wrong with using > > when: never (or manual to let devs force it from the UI) > 'when: never' can only be used in conjunction with the 'rules' keyword [1],[2] which in turn is mutually exclusive with 'only/except' [3] which we currently utilize.