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diff --git a/doc/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.md b/doc/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.md index 1e862c87035..4b7d3845361 100644 --- a/doc/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.md +++ b/doc/ci/pipelines/cicd_minutes.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ On GitLab.com: - CI/CD minutes quotas are enabled for both public and private projects, but public projects [consume CI/CD minutes at a slower rate](#cost-factor). -- The base monthly CI/CD minutes quota for a GitLab.com [namespace](../../user/group/index.md#namespaces) +- The base monthly CI/CD minutes quota for a GitLab.com [namespace](../../user/namespace/index.md) is determined by its [license tier](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/). - You can [purchase additional CI/CD minutes](#purchase-additional-cicd-minutes) if you need more than the number of CI/CD minutes in your monthly quota. @@ -204,12 +204,36 @@ The cost factors for jobs running on shared runners on GitLab.com are: - `0.008` for public projects, and projects in the [GitLab for Open Source program](../../subscriptions/index.md#gitlab-for-open-source). For every 125 minutes of job execution time, you use 1 CI/CD minute. - `1` for internal and private projects. +- Calculated differently for [community contributions to GitLab projects](#cost-factor-for-community-contributions-to-gitlab-projects). The cost factors on self-managed instances are: - `0` for public projects, so they do not consume CI/CD minutes. - `1` for internal and private projects. +#### Cost factor for community contributions to GitLab projects + +Community contributors can use up to 300,000 minutes on shared runners when +contributing to open source projects maintained by GitLab. The 300,000 +minutes applies to all SaaS tiers, and the cost factor calculation is: + +- `Monthly minute quota / 300,000 job duration minutes = Cost factor` + +For example, with the 10,000 CI/CD minutes per month in the Premium tier: + +- 10,000 / 300,000 = 0.03333333333 cost factor. + +For this reduced cost factor: + +- The merge request source project must be a fork of a GitLab-maintained project, + such as [`gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com), + [`gitlab-org/gitlab`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab), and so on. +- The merge request target project must be the fork's parent project. +- The pipeline must be a merge request, merged results, or merge train pipeline. + +GitLab administrators can add a namespace to the reduced cost factor +[with a flag](../../administration/feature_flags.md) named `ci_minimal_cost_factor_for_gitlab_namespaces`. + ### Additional costs on GitLab SaaS GitLab SaaS shared runners have different cost factors, depending on the runner type (Linux, Windows, macOS) and the virtual machine configuration. |