The Danger script inspects differences between the current version of a
given merge request's target branch and the merge request branch. If
the latter falls behind the former, the Danger script will wrongly warn
about missing GitLab/RT identifiers because it incorrectly treats the
"+++" diff marker as an indication of the merge request adding new lines
to a file. Tweak the relevant conditional expression to prevent such
invalid warnings from being raised.
As GitLab Runner Docker executor caches Git repositories between jobs,
prevent the Danger script from attempting to update local refs to ensure
"git fetch" returns with an exit code of 0. Use the FETCH_HEAD ref for
determining the differences between the merge request branch and its
target branch.
Commits adding CHANGES entries and/or release notes do not need a commit
log message. Do not warn about a missing commit log message for such
commits to make the warning more meaningful.
Certain rules of the BIND development process are not codified anywhere
and/or are used inconsistently. In an attempt to improve this
situation, add a GitLab CI job which uses Danger Python to add comments
to merge requests when certain expectations are not met. Two categories
of feedback are used, only one of which - fail() - causes the GitLab CI
job to fail. Exclude dangerfile.py from Python QA checks as the way the
contents of that file are evaluated triggers a lot of Flake8 and PyLint
warnings.
