Rename 'check_pipeline_status' to 'mirror_pipeline_result' in order to
better reflect what the function does.

Move determination of the pipeline out of this function to a new
function 'get_pipelines' so that this can be tested separately and we
can do different things depending on whether a pipeline exists or not.

Add function 'trigger_pipeline' to trigger a pipeline on a branch.

BCS 746-000635

The project name is matched with the predefined gitlab var CI_PROJECT_NAME,
which uses lower case.

Add .yamllint.yml to configure the yamllint usage, should
be used as master yamllint config from other stages also.
Apply small changes to yml files to match yamllint.

BCS 746-000640

The main install file for u-boot changed to imx-boot.tar.gz, so this
should be added to alphaplan. Leaving the imx-boot implementation
as fallback.

BCS 746-000600

Added default source revision file name to common.py.
Modified the integration_into_manifest function to set the
corresponding subproject hash in the SRCREV.conf file if the
repository is not found in the default.xml file. The
merge_into_manifest function now works even if the names of
the master branches in the manifest and in the project
repository are different.

BCS 746-000016

BCS 746-000669

The job was used to check if all scripts are able to run in the yocto
CI image. Tim and Jonas decided to remove the job and plan to change
the CI, that the yocto image does not need to execute special python
scripts. That way we may use the plain crops/poky container for the
yocto build and remove this dependency thats hard to track.

BCS 746-000643

BCS 746-000303

BCS 746-000303

BCS DevOps-000032

BCS DevOps-000032

The variable use in the deploy name was not replaced in the UI. This
hopefully cleansup the UI, and uses the project root variable in the job
only.

BCS 746-000629

Explicitly triggering a pipeline in the target repository does not work
easily from this place because we would have to distinguish between the
manifest (which uses branch pipelines) and the sub-projects (which use
merge request pipelines). This separation should not be hard-coded here,
so we move the decision whether or not to run a pipeline to the
.gitlab-ci.yml file of the target. Reverting these two commits:

63279799
    deploy_gitlab_ci: trigger pipeline only if it has not run before

dfc6204a
    deploy_gitlab_ci: trigger pipeline on integration branch

The function used to rely on the given merge request object without
checking its current state. If the given object was not in one of the
"unchecked" states, it returned immediately. The state, however, could
have changed between its last query and the call of this function, so
it now checks the state first before deciding anything.

Fix pylint errors introduced with new pylint version:
* unspecified-encoding: explicitly set encoding when opening a file
* assigning-non-slot: use "set_reference()" function instead of assigning
  a value to the "reference" attribute
* unused-variable: remove "e" variable on exceptions when not referenced

A bug in python-gitlab > 2.7.0 [1] brought this up: In the past we
relied on the merge request's setting, whether the source branch should
be deleted or not after a merge. Since we're using the API's merge
function in a fully automated task, however, the branch should always be
deleted. Add the according argument explicitly.

[1]: https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues/1750

* Combine two return statements into one.
* Switch if statement order to remove else branch.

The outdated YAML 1.1 specification allowed values like 'yes' or 'no'
for boolean fields [1]. The newer spec 1.2 allows only 'true' and
'false' [2], so we update them to be conform with it.

[1]: https://yaml.org/type/bool.html
[2]: https://yaml.org/spec/1.2.2/#10212-boolean

Remove the trigger source parameter again because it did not serve the
use case. Add ref parameter instead.

BCS DevOps-000023 DevOps-000024

alphaplan_fwr.py: Creates alphaplan software packages for the build
release artifacts. According to the release, all relevant artifacts are
collected in a list structure and the corresponding aphaplan
information are added for each artifact (attributes, md5sum, path, etc.).
The list is attached to major software package structure. This structure
is written in a json file for documentation. Afterwards the structure is
send to an AlphaPlan webservice that creates the FWR articles.
alphaplan_keys.py: Generates a dictionary which contains all AlphaPlan
specific information for the artifacts. Flag classes are used to define
unique keys for the dictionary accesses.

Previously the default branch was allways used to generate the tests
from, now it is possible to specify the branch as cmdline option.
Additionally, the revision of the test repository is added to the
call of the test generator, so the tests run at a fix rev.

BCS 746-000547

Uses submit_all instead of submit.
Some code cleanup also.

The testsuite is generated per platform and submited to the lava server.
The resulting jobs are monitored and the results are downloaded in the
results/ subfolder.

The paths have been hardcoded inside the script before. To
allow reuse in different situations, the hardcoded paths are removed
and options are added instead.

To upload the sdk the local deployment on build host is needed as it is
too big for the uploads.

Move copy functionality to extra function. It also generates md5sum.txt
from the source file's md5sums.
Copy locally (host system) and as gitlab artifact.

Add option to copy doc files ( all .md in given folder).

BCS 746-000262

Unfortunately, GitLab still interpreted three of the four dashes as
start and end of YAML syntax, so we go back to two dashes.

The former "---" was still rendered as YAML syntax by GitLab in some
cases.

Restore the "---" separator which was removed in a previous commit. The
description simply must not start with this separator. If we include it
only in between the blocks, all instances are rendered as a horizontal
line, which makes the MR description more readable. Include a helper
function for this purpose, which extracts the message body from a commit
message.