Hi Matt, Yeah I lately realised freestyle jobs are important as of now. Moreover in the Gitlab plugin freestyle jobs will be of a concern as much as support of pipeline job. I think I'll explore the 2nd option more and figure out if the API can be driven out of the existing GitLab plugin without breaking anything.
Thanks. On Mon 1 Apr, 2019, 21:20 Matt Sicker <msic...@cloudbees.com wrote: > I've been under the impression that freestyle jobs don't really intend > to go anywhere anytime soon. A lot of pipeline functionality is driven > by the same plugin code that freestyle jobs utilize. > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 1:45 AM Parichay Barpanda > <parichay.barpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am preparing a proposal to add Multibranch Pipeline support to the > Gitlab plugin. Existing Gitlab plugin does not support Multibranch pipeline > builds in a way that it enables build triggers but cannot configure the > variables (basically multibranch pipeline support is non-existent) - the > API doesn't support it. But there are a lot of existing users that use the > GitLab plugin at the moment and I fear API changes might break binary > compatibility. > > > > My suggestions is to develop 2 new plugins: a Gitlab API plugin and a > Gitlab SCM Plugin. > > > > 1) Gitlab API plugin which, very similar to Github API plugin, wraps the > Gitlab Java API. > > > > 2) Gitlab SCM plugin which will be a major design overhaul version of > existing Gitlab Plugin to accomodate both pipeline and mulitbranch pipeline > jobs along with other type of job configurations. > > > > I have 2 ways to implement this: > > > > Method 1: > > 1) I am thinking freestyle jobs will be deprecated in the future in > favor of pipeline jobs. Gitlab plugin supports freestyle builds, so as long > as freestyle builds are favoured the existing Gitlab plugin will support it. > > 2) Focusing on just pipeline will ease the task of designing API and > handling the complexity due to which all the SCM plugins are divided into > two i.e. <scm> plugin and <scm>-branch-source plugin. > > > > Method 2: > > 1) If freestyle jobs are important and cannot be compromised then modify > the Gitlab plugin to add multibranch pipeline support and find a way to > take out Gitlab API and wrap it in a separate plugin. I haven't been able > to figure out how much security risks and backwards compatibility will be > involved in this method. Need someone with experience tell me about this. > > > > Main Objective of this proposal: Just have one SCM plugin which does all > type of jobs and remove users' confusion of having 2 separate SCM plugins > and code duplication. > > > > Need your feedbacks so that I can finalise which method to carry forward > and start working on this proposal. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Parichay (baymac) > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/a872ab3c-d180-4275-81ed-35418805bae2%40googlegroups.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Matt Sicker > Senior Software Engineer, Jenkins Security, CloudBees > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAEot4ozOu5T7RpgO60fKhTkdur1HTRWQ7GEsqEqS9t-Y1EVe9Q%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAD0DWAPqBEkn-EVwfuS7C-1U8dT7sZCLnx6pD5C6e-V%3DCYB7Tg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
