Gitea: Provide a Jenkins plugin for gitea

[martinellison]

Please provide a Jenkins plugin for gitea so that we can automate builds.

Note: there is a gogs plugin for Jenkins (does this work with gitea?).

[lunny]

@martinellison It should be work since Gitea is forked from Gogs.

[strk]

See https://github.com/jenkinsci/gogs-webhook-plugin/issues/6

[stephenc]

Actually see https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitea-plugin

[gchung01]

I had tried installing the gitea-plugin a couple times on a the latest jenkins build 2.107.3 but it doesn't seem to work.

[jalcine]

Echoing what @gchung01 mentioned; the documentation on both the plugin page and the README of the plugin doesn't give much information on how to use it.

[bkahlerventer]

Tried to use the plugin on gitea 1.5.1 It always gives Could not communicate with server: HTTP 403/Forbidden. Tried using gitea token. The plugin appears abandoned, last updates are 6 months ago, there is no way to contact the owner.

[stephenc]

Token does not work at present by design as the Jenkins git plugin doesn’t support redaction of the token from the logs. Just use user/pass

[stephenc]

(I am waiting on gitea to expose tag details via rest api before I allocate my next time budget to this plugin... been waiting a while now and no progress yet https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/2738 if you have any influence)

[lafriks]

@stephenc we are already feature freeze but I will implement it in next version

[stephenc]

@lafriks totally fine... just ping me when #2738 is implements (or you have an easy to try prototype) and I'll schedule a slot to put some work in the plugin to consume the new api)

[bkahlerventer]

Token does not work at present _by design_ as the Jenkins git plugin doesn’t support redaction of the token from the logs. Just use user/pass

@stephenc if I understand you correctly I should encode the user name and password with the URL in Jenkins config? I tried that but I still get "Could not communicate with server: HTTP 403/Forbidden".

Whether I turn on manage hooks and select a credential user with full admin rights on gitea, or supply userid:password or both, the gitea plugin always give me a 403/Forbidden message. I am running gitea on my local laptop and access it via http://localhost:3000

Update: Event tried ip address, http://127.0.0.1:3000 - no go.

[stephenc]

I should encode the user name and password with the URL in Jenkins config

No! Never

Just create a username password credential with your username and password and select that as the credentials.

[bkahlerventer]

@stephenc without turning on manage hooks, I cannot select credentials for the plugin to use

[stephenc]

You can... that's at the job configure page

[stephenc]

I'm uploading a video to youtube to show a quick walk through of set-up from scratch... give it a few minutes to encode

[stephenc]

Uploading is slow too... not just encoding!

[bkahlerventer]

no problem... :-)

[stephenc]

At approx 9:06 in the video you will see the credentials drop down in an org folder. There are equivalent drop-downs in the other job types. There should be an Add button beside, but even if there isn't you can use the Jenkins credentials management screen to add the credential and it should show in the drop down.

[stephenc]

https://youtu.be/B4boQozMaRA is claimed to be the video URL (now youtube is processing it)

[stephenc]

ok video is live. there is no audio!

[bkahlerventer]

great video, makes more sense now... please add to plugin docs sometime

[jalcine]

I appreciate you clarifying that @stephenc!