CI/CD with KiCad and Gitlab
Smashing job. I use kibot in a similar fashion locally to generate my fab packages for my kicad designs.<p>I had it set up as a CI job for a while, but I ended up disabling it for a few reasons, the main one being that I just don't think it's a good idea to constantly create build artifacts for circuit board designs. It has created problems when people have circulated intermediate schematics generated by CI that don't match the hardware we built.<p>You really only need to archive fab packages (by which I mean schematic, gerbers, BOM, assembly drawing, fab notes, etc) at the points in time where you fab and assemble a board.<p>Creating more artifacts just creates the possibility for more noise. It's not like software CI as there's not really a way to automate hardware testing in a CI server. Very little incremental value in continuous artifact generation as a result.