From 02c0b9ff76ec294ec654b747450f5d6527af722e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Duckworth <tduck@filotimoproject.org>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026 02:59:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Set the manual publish stage as optional

This makes CI green and lets the pipelines finish if publish-manual
is never run. Also be explicit that the publish job should never show up
outside of a protected branch in kde-linux/kde-linux.
---
 .gitlab-ci.yml | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 16ee015..c1ff729 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ publish:
   rules:
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_REF_PROTECTED == 'true' && $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH == $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME && $CI_PROJECT_PATH == 'kde-linux/kde-linux'
       when: on_success
+    - when: never
   needs:
     - job: imaging
       artifacts: true
@@ -122,10 +123,11 @@ publish-manual:
   rules:
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_REF_PROTECTED == 'true' && $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH == $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME && $CI_PROJECT_PATH == 'kde-linux/kde-linux'
       when: manual
+      allow_failure: true
+    - when: never
   needs:
     - job: imaging
       artifacts: true
-  allow_failure: false
   image: storage.kde.org/vm-images/kde-linux-builder
   id_tokens: *tokens
   variables: *variables