GitLab

Description

GitLab has recently introduced rules to the GitLab CI/CD configuration. rules is meant to replace except/only and is much more capable. In particular, we can run certain jobs based on changes to specific source files, which should come in handy with the Docker image jobs.

Proposal

• Run setup and prep jobs when respective files change:

  setup:dune-env: &setup
    stage: setup
    rules:
      - changes:
          - docker/dune-env.dockerfile
    # ...
  
  prep:update-dune: &update
    <<: *setup
    stage: prep
    allow_failure: true
    rules:
      # Run after pushes to master and tags
      - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "master"'
      - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
      # Run after Dockerfile changed. Do not allow failure then.
      - changes:
          - docker/dune-env-update.dockerfile
        allow_failure: false

• Add empty needs for test:python-tests, as https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/30631 is resolved.

How to test the implementation?

• Pipeline passes regularly.
• Changes to Dockerfiles trigger jobs.

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