gitbot

A gitlab bot used to enforce change control.

Overview

Supports resetting permissions for groups. Add's lgtm support in merge requests comments based on a predefined list of approvers.

Example config (using hcl - https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl) since it more clear to express the repo object in my opinion vs ini style or json/toml,etc):

token = ""
git-api-URL = "https://gitlab.company.net/api/v3/"
default-approvers = ["user1","user2","user3"]

repo "monitoring_group/test1" {
plugins = ["lgtm"]
approvers = ["user5"]
}

repo "tools" {
plugins = ["lgtm","drop_rights"]
approvers = ["user6"]
}

Assuming you are in the default-approvers or on the approvers list on the group definition using /lgtm the bot will merge the request. You will also need to create a gitlab user with administrator rights (probably can have more granular rights) and provide the token for that user in the config file.

Heavily inspired by: https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/tree/master/prow

Not ready for production

The project is missing tests so don't use this in production! It was a side project to understand how the kubernetes bot works and learn the gitlab api. With some work (removing some racing conditions) and a more clear implementation of the group plugins it can get there, but I don't have the time right now. It will also need a way to add tags after a merge request so you can get an artifact out based on the tag (make releases based on tags). Still need to figure out a way on how to do this best, either by adding a new keyword e.g. "/tag 0.1.1" though a comment on the already merged "merge request" or though some other way. This would be simple to add as it's very similar to the lgtm plugin.

Building locally

You will need to have docker installed and available in your path. To generate RPM's run make docker-rpm. Alternatively you can run make help to get the supported list of operations.