Currently I am working in a project in which we are using Gitlab for repository management. I am the owner of project so I want to automate the code checkin validation on daily basis . my question is , Is there any option so that, I can configure the daily check(whether developer pushed there code or not) and send the notification to developers?
There is no build in functionality for this.
As this is a reasonable feature you should follow the feature request workflow of Gitlab and open an issue for that. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce
But keep in mind that such feature will be probably only available for the EE version.
As alternative you can use the API of Gitlab to extract the commits of a project. https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/commits.html
Then process the date diffs using a e.g. python script and send an email or post on a Mattermost channel using their API. https://api.mattermost.com/
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Recently I have intergraded Slack and GitLabs together using the gitlab app.
doc ref: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/gitlab_slack_application.html
I can currently create issues in Gitlabs via slack using the slash command in slack i.e
In slack,
/gitlabs 10C new issue < issue name > < issue description >
This all works and is going well.
What would be even better is if when you typed in /gitlabs it would suggest the name of the repos that are available to me and after that it would suggest the available commands.
Basically is there a way to get some form of auto complete or intenseness in this functionality.
I have integrated Slack and GitLabs, so the non developers of the team could have an easier time reporting bugs.
Any ideals?
Thanks
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We are improving our CI/CD process and we understand that we need to use GitHub (or similar) for a better version control..
We would like to integrate SuiteCloud with Github to upload ALL our objects in order to track an monitor any changes. Also, we are planning to use branches to deploy code in our instances. Ex: Master = Production. Dev Branch = Sandbox1, Homologation = Sandbox2.
So... is possible to do it? And how? Any experiences to be shared?
Since SDF manipulates text (xml) files their management is no different than for any other git based CI/CD process.
Netsuite has java and node based CLI tools that can be incorporated in Git Actions for automated deployments.
You'll have some fun if you want to automate testing as that can be problematic with any live database.
I have written an entire software development course, and until recently we've been using Bitbucket. I recently rewrote the course to use GitLab instead, mostly because GitLab the username isn't tied to a particular email like Bitbucket. I had heard good things. But I'm running into problems already.
The first is that merge requests (what the other hosting services call "pull requests") are not sending out notifications to approvers. We just had the lesson where I taught my students to create merge requests. I had them add me as "Reporter" to their projects. Then I had them create a merge request, and add me as an "Approver".
Yet I received no email notifying me that two student had created merge requests with me as an approver on each. I double-checked, and my global notifications are set to "Participate".
I reported this issue in a comment to a GitLab ticket, but received no response. I even filed a new official GitLab bug report; someone finally looked at it, and created another ticket for GitLab EE. So far no one has actually found the problem.
So as a workaround I went into my GitLab nofication settings and set the notification level for each student repository to "Watch" so that I (in theory) should be notified of any activity at all. Sure enough, I was notified when my students created merge requests.
Unfortunately even with a notification level of "watch", I was not notified when a student updated a merge request by making a new commitment to the branch and pushing it to GitLab.
Am I doing something wrong? Why am I not getting notifications of merge requests on which I am approver—not even when I'm watching the project? If I can't get this simple, core functionality to work I guess we'll move to Github, now that they introduced private repositories.
Role "Reporter" cannot accept/manager Merge Requests in the repository. See the whole list of permissions but basically they are:
Guest: Read only access
Reporter: Issues and comments
Developer: Push, actions to the repository
Maintainer: Admin
I did not test myself but maybe GitLab notifications check this internally. My recommendation is to protect the master branch or develop depending on your Git Workflow. Ideally only Maintainers can push or merge to protected branches after code review, so you should be assigned this role in the repos to approved things and hopefully receive the notifications. The global notification should be "Participate" and this is propagated to all your repos to avoid be overwhelmed by notifications ("Watch" notify all the activities in the repos). Developers should create feature or bugfix branches from master/develop and push always to this branch.
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I would research some Git Workflow: Github, GitLab or GitFlow are very good examples to analyse. You can adapt the workflow to your own needs. Another MUST should be to configure GitLab CI/CD before merging into the protected branches to assure the robustness and quality of the code and teach the students good practices from the beginning.
UPDATE 2
This is happening in the CE and EE. No emails are sent when pushing new commits to Merge Requests. I tested with "Watch", "Custom", "Participate", "Developer", "Maintainer" and no emails have been sent. Actually "Custom" has an specific option for "Push to Merge Requests". However even not ideal, there is a workaround if you want to use it. Actually it also sends the diff between commits inside the email. In Settings/Integration there is an option Emails on push. You can configure there a list of emails to send the notifications. See the image below. If you want to be informed when someone push new commits to the MR another workaround is to configure the CI pipeline. You will receive an email if the pipeline fails or succeeds (this is the way we are doing). Let's wait until GitLab people answers to your GitLab ticket. If this is a NO GO issue for you and none of the workarounds work for you, I would move to GitHub Private Repositories.
We use Youtrack for our developers, and we have GitLab CE with repos. In several projects we allow external users to post issues in GitLab and I need copy of them in YouTrack. At least initial copy on posting.
Can't find any solution on web. So I guess we need to make our own, but with way is better?
YouTrack project workflows requesting some GitLab API url?
Webhooks? I don't see any web hook receiver on YouTrack side. Is there any web
hook Should U make some thing in the middle?
There're no webhooks available in YouTrack indeed, so your options would be either to use some external service that would copy information from GitLab to YouTrack, or create a workflow that would request GitLab for new issues every once in awhile.
We are looking at removing developers from production and want a simple kind of deployment management tool. One suggestion that some members are using with SalesForce is Jenkins. I have never used Jenkins or any kind of deployment tool before. I normally just copied my code from IDE and updated the file in the SuiteScript file cabinet.
Does Jenkins work for NetSuite? Or what do you recommend for this purpose?
We are planning to use Bit Bucket (which runs Git in the background) as our version control in case that matters.
Thank you for any help
IMO the greatest challenge in integrating with any CI environment(be it Jenkins or any other) is the fact that you can move code files from one system to another using code/APIs but, NOT things like scripts, custom records, fields its deployments , etc. for which you need a bundling process and hence, manual intervention.
NetSuite in recent Suiteworld 2015 said that its coming up "Change Management" which would allow you to put everything that is part of your app to version control system such as git. Please see SuiteAnswer Id 42387, when this feature is rolled out, you can integrate with your CI tool to automatically copy/deploy your app details to an another NetSuite account and run your tests there and accordingly pass/fail your build.
Why do you want to remove developers from Production? This will severely hamper their ability to create solutions for your NetSuite account and will create a ton of overhead for them.
If you must have them out of Production, then probably your "best" option would be to have them build their solutions in Sandbox and then use SuiteBundles for deployment to Production. A Production Admin would need to update the appropriate Bundle(s) for all Production migrations.
NetSuite has also built a SuiteCloud IDE plugin for Eclipse which allows uploading and downloading files (no copy-paste necessary), so if you're not using that I would recommend it.
We are using Jenkins for our own internal automated testing, but not for deployment into NetSuite. I do not know if someone has already built a NetSuite plugin for Jenkins; it is likely you would have to build your own file upload mechanism using the NetSuite Web Services SOAP API, but that would still only allow deployment of source files. Developers will most likely also need to be creating and updating custom records, fields, lists as well as Script records and Script Deployment records, which you will not be able to do through Jenkins or any other tool that I know of.