Hello Jose, On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 11:48 +0000, Jose Fonseca wrote: > Why doesn't Gilab allow one to merge manually? > > See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/12940: > > * Marge-bot failed to merge the PR due to 2 flaky tests, completely > unrelated to the commits in question.
I can understand your frustration with the flaky tests, but I'm sure you know that having a CI is place helps a lot to not break most of the code, so merging without having to go through the CI is not really an option, even if we are all sensible adults. Maybe we all should just file bugs when we see a flaky test, so that those get flagged accordingly by the developers responsible for the related drivers. > > * I manually retried the failed tests, and they all passed, but > still Gitlab refused to allow to merge: it said I needed to rebase. This is, because Marge merged some other MR between the time you rebased the last time. Since the pre-merge CI was added and before Marge was introduced, this actually happened quite regularly: Press the Merge-when-pipeline-succeeds button and fail, because some other merge request was already in the pipeline and got merged before your pipeline finished. However, nowadays you don't need to rebase yourself, once you assign the MR to Marge and she will do that for you when she starts to handle your merge request. > * I rebased, but still Gitlab refused to merge: now it expects the > pipelines to be runagain! I'm really sorry for your frustration, but if you're sure that the merge failed only because if flaky tests, then simply reassigning the MR to Marge will do. > Is it really necessary to go to git command line to get a PR > merged!? (I was forced to do so 2-3 times now, but it's a hassle.) No, it is not necessary, because Marge will do that for you, once you assign the MR to her. > Or run pipelines over and over until one eventually succeeds? This is only a problem because of the flaky tests, and yes, we should do something about this. > Sorry for the rant, but I didn't notice anybody else complain. Am I > the only bothered here? Or is there a better way here I don't know > of? As you sure have understood at this point, the answer is "Assign to Marge" ;) Best regards, Gert