Add documentation on how to use from jenkins about gitea-checks-plugin HOT 2 OPEN

I am not the author of this plugin, but maybe my experience can help.

I tried to figure out how to use this plugin in a similar way to an older configuration we had using a different Git server, where we defined all of the webhooks and triggers and jobs and views manually. I was not able to figure out how to give the Gitea Checks plugin the proper credentials so that it could submit the job results back to the PR or commit which had triggered it.

But when I tried using it in combination with the Gitea plugin, this plugin just worked without any special configuration. All of the actual configuration was on the Gitea plugin side.

Here's how I set that up.

1. I set up a hello-world org in gitea with a hello-world/hello-world repo, and stuck a .jenkinsfile pipeline in there which ran make run and make test.
2. I added a credential to Jenkins, of type Gitea Personal Access Token.
3. Then, in my Jenkins dashboard view, I created a view named hello-world, of type Gitea Organization.
4. In the configuration of that view, I told it where to find the hello-world org and that the pipeline filename it should look for is .jenkinsfile.

It automatically went and found the hello-world/hello-world repo, registered a webhook on that repo, and set up a hierarchy of job views to represent the repo, branches, and PRs. It triggered the job to run when I pushed a commit or created a PR. With all of that in place, this Gitea Checks plugin submits results to the right place. I see green checkboxes on commits which passed tests, and I see latest build results and verified tags on PRs. The result was very clean, this integration makes new setups quite easy.

The build log includes messages like this:

[Gitea] Notifying branch build status: SUCCESS This commit looks good
[Gitea] Notified

However, it's unclear how to migrate older sets of CICD jobs over to Gitea without rewriting everything all at once. If anyone knows a way to set it up to submit check results, specifying credentials and locations manually, without all of the auto discovery stuff, that would be helpful.

from gitea-checks-plugin.

There is no configuration, it will just work when you use gitea connection for your multibranch pipeline.

Your can publish custom checks, see checks-api plugin

https://plugins.jenkins.io/checks-api/#plugin-content-pipeline-usage

from gitea-checks-plugin.