8.8 CI Plan

The planned features:

• CI architecture changes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14149 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3653: DONE
• UX - MR builds table redundant information: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14164, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3222. Superseded by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3653 DONE**
• Add support for after_script: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/102#note_4479340: DONE
• Visualisation of build pipeline stages: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3703 DONE (Part of #3743 (closed))
• Incremental sending of build log: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/1155: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/124
• Skipped status if one of the builds is canceled: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14207, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3778: DONE
• Rendering of build log: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14591#note_4477031: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3737 DONE
• Update build log incrementally: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3737: DONE
• Docker authentication service: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3787: DONE
• Container Registry support: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4040: DONE
• Add config for CI Runner that prevents it from picking untagged jobs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4039: DONE
• Lock specific runners: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3407: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4093

Next up:

• CI plugin system (for deployments mostly): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14178: Working proof of concept
• Refactor GitLabCiYamlProcessor: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15060
• Artifacts expiry date: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3439: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4200
• Artifacts for failed builds: gitlab-org/gitlab-ce#4034: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4201

Blocked by other:

• Testing dependent projects (git submodule problem): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci/issues/224
• Per project build number and build version: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3691. Will be solved with CI architecture changes.
• Attach more information to builds emails: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3976. Will be solved with CI architecture changes.
• Run builds that were skipped: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4054. Will be solved with CI architecture changes.

The bugs that needs to be solved:

• Sometimes the builds are not created: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12839
• Visiting CI Graphs on a repo without CI throws 500 error: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17638

The future features:

• Per build token (security): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci/issues/305
• Shallow clone (performance): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4284
• Pages group domain: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/326
• Allow to schedule builds periodically: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2989
• Implement a new build view: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/7141
• Make builds run only if they are on HEAD of the branch being build: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/8998
• Estimate CI build time: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13412
• Sticky runners: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/31
• Build ID and Commit ID and Request ID: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13609
• Improve Pages deploy feature: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/329
• Fetch LFS for CI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3489
• CI Lint in file-tree view: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13448
• Push back to CI: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci/issues/372
• Extend Commit Status with additional parameters: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13738
• Builds dashboard: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3235
• Remove all CI data: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2929
• Better links for artifacts: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4768
• Filter builds in admin area: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/7956
• Retry builds (forcefully) if failed: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3442
• Show artifacts in tag view: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13161
• Code coverage: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13409
• Refresh builds pages: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/5983
• CI yaml in project configuration: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15041 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15041
• Merge for future builds: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/8108
• merge_requests for only and except: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15310
• API for CI Lint: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15571
• Require builds to succeed in order to merge it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15546
• GitLab Deploy: #3286 (closed)
• Rename Builds to CI: #17008 (closed)
• Multi-project pipelines: #15655 (closed)
• Environments: #17009 (closed)
• Manual deployments: #17010 (closed)
• Link builds that are related across triggers: #17013 (moved)
• First-class triggers / cross-project dependencies: #16556 (moved)
• Use runner only for protected branches: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17418
• Add warn_on_failure option on CI builds: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/17669

CI issues for 8.8: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?assignee_id=&author_id=&label_name=CI&milestone_title=8.8&scope=all&sort=id_desc&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93&weight=