automation: avoid pipelines on specific branches

This patch avoids the execution of pipelines in the
following branches:
- master
- smoke
- coverirty-tested/.*
- stable-.*

The job-level exclusions have been removed as they are
pointless with this new workspace-level exclusion.

Signed-off-by: Simone Ballarin <simone.ballarin@bugseng.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+workflow:
+  rules:
+    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH =~ /^(master|smoke|^coverity-tested\/.*|stable-.*)$/
+      when: never
+    - when: always
+
 stages:
   - analyze
   - build

automation/gitlab-ci/build.yaml

@@ -12,11 +12,6 @@
       - '*/*.log'
     when: always
   needs: []
-  except:
-    - master
-    - smoke
-    - /^coverity-tested\/.*/
-    - /^stable-.*/
 
 .gcc-tmpl:
   variables: &gcc
@@ -214,11 +209,6 @@
 .yocto-test:
   stage: build
   image: registry.gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/${CONTAINER}
-  except:
-    - master
-    - smoke
-    - /^coverity-tested\/.*/
-    - /^stable-.*/
   script:
     - ./automation/build/yocto/build-yocto.sh -v --log-dir=./logs --xen-dir=`pwd` ${YOCTO_BOARD} ${YOCTO_OUTPUT}
   variables:
@@ -269,7 +259,6 @@
 .test-jobs-artifact-common:
   stage: build
   needs: []
-  except: !reference [.test-jobs-common, except]
 
 # Arm test artifacts
 

automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml

@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 .test-jobs-common:
   stage: test
   image: registry.gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/${CONTAINER}
-  except:
-    - master
-    - smoke
-    - /^coverity-tested\/.*/
-    - /^stable-.*/
 
 .arm64-test-needs: &arm64-test-needs
   - alpine-3.18-arm64-rootfs-export