8.11 CI Plan
The [bugs that needs to be solved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&sort=id_desc&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93&milestone_title=8.11&label_name%5B%5D=bug&label_name%5B%5D=CI).
## The key features (includes a **Frontend** and **Backend**):
* [x] **Show current deploy status - Is this SHA currently deployed? https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19571#note_13246122 (gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!5622)**
* [x] **Add an URL as a configuration of Environment and show this as part of current deploy status: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19527. (!5469)**
* [x] **Create `pipeline_hooks`: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20115 (!5620)**
## The planned **Frontend** improvements (@annabeldunstone @hazelyang):
* [x] **Improve build view to show pipelines: #18141:!5742**
* [x] **Collapse build tabs: #18516: !5595**
* [x] **Show pipelines for merge requests: #18681: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5485**
* [x] **Show user in pipeline view https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20002 (already implemented)**
* [x] **Format Environments page https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20059: !5687**
* [x] **"CI configuration" button when `.gitlab-ci.yml` is present: #20101: !5558**
## The planned **Backend** improvements (@ayufan @godfat @grzesiek @tmaczukin):
* [X] **Add an API to enumerate Environments: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5469**
* [x] **Pre-create all builds when processing the pipeline (@ayufan): this is to solved https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18644 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/289: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5295**
* [x] **Improve Pipeline processing by using State Machine: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5782**
* [x] **Generate coverage report for whole test suite: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5018 (@ayufan @grzesiek)**
* [x] **Implement code coverage badge and some other improvements regarding code coverage: #3714 (@grzesiek)**
* [x] **Use badge template instead of using separate images https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5520**
* [x] **Implement test coverage badge using badge templates https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5708**
* [x] **Make it possible to display coverage badge depending on specific job that reports compound coverage** (done in !5708)
* [x] **Report wall-clock elapsed time rather than cumulative job time (@godfat): #17007, !5734**
* [x] **Add an API to enumerate Deployments and trigger manual actions: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5825**
* [x] **Add an API to enumerate pipelines: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5837**
## The planned **GitLab Runner** improvements (@ayufan @tmaczukin):
* [x] **Fix issue with leaking sockets when using docker executor: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/196: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/185: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/260**
* [x] **Retry all docker operations in GitLab Runner to increase stability of builds: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/244**
* [x] **Mounting used volumes to all services containers (docker executor): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/241**
* [x] **Support shared builds volume (docker executor): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/193**
## The planned documentation/blog posts:
* [ ] Prepare monitoring recommendations with description for our infrastructure team
* [ ] Prepare a blog post about Shared Runners and performance: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/blog-posts/issues/244
### Slipped
* [ ] **Add download buttons for downloading artifacts for a branch (@godfat): #4255, #14419, !5142** (this is finished, but we missed the merge window)
* [ ] **Support running builds on Kubernetes: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/30 suppressed by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/277** (it is done, but will be released with 1.6)
* [ ] **Update artifacts_size for old builds (!5076)** (we have working prototype, but we hit the performance problems (the long running migration) that we could not agree how to solve)
* [ ] **Have CI automatically test migration paths (@zj): #14549: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/4874** (this is done, but we can't merge that, because of problems with other components)
* [ ] **Add a line number and permalink to each line of build trace: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13205: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5744** (Frontend team were overloaded and did not manage to review and merge that in time)
* [ ] Show deployment activity and current status for merge requests #19992 (we did start looking at it)
* [ ] Show deploy activity on merge request activity feed #18440 (we did not start that)
* [ ] Add environment/deployment URL to environments page (we did not have time to start that)
* [ ] Improve CI e-mail notifications: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3976#note_13152995 (It took us too long to merge `pipeline_events`)
#### Stretch; likely not to happen:
* ~~Statistics server embedded into Runner: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/merge_requests/219~~. The ideas how to improve that: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/1484
* Global Pipelines List + Filters for pipelines: #18054
* Start tracking pipelines for Merge Requests and add `merge-requests` to `only`: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15310
* **Use pipeline_hooks for Slack notifications: !5525** (this is started by @godfat)
* **Use per-build token to act as an user triggering build: #18993: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/5735**
The future features:
[CI Backlog](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&sort=id_desc&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93&milestone_title=Backlog&label_name%5B%5D=CI&weight=) [GitLab Runner Backlog](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/milestones/16)
CI issues for 8.11: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?assignee_id=&author_id=&label_name=CI&milestone_title=8.11&scope=all&sort=id_desc&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93&weight=
Runner issues for 1.5: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues?scope=all&sort=id_desc&state=opened&utf8=%E2%9C%93&milestone_title=v1.5&label-name=
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