Release 0.17.0: Automatic working directory management and comprehensive testing

This release adds automatic working directory management for child pipelines, comprehensive module test coverage, improved module configurations, and important bug fixes.

Key Features

Automatic Working Directory Management

• New workingDirectory option for gitlab.ci configuration
• Automatically set via GITLAB_CI_WORKING_DIR environment variable for child pipelines
• Adds before_script: cd <workingDirectory> to all jobs in child pipelines
• Test flakes can now use relative paths (.) instead of full repo paths
• Eliminates common errors from forgetting to update paths in test configurations

Comprehensive Test Coverage

• ✅ New module tests: canaries, omnix, and cachix
• ✅ Positive validator tests: accepts-valid-inputs, accepts-current-lock, accepts-valid-flake
• ✅ All test configurations simplified using default flake.flakes
• ✅ Tests automatically use workingDirectory feature for path handling

Module Improvements

flake-strict-inputs

• Add default exceptions for common flake-parts ecosystem dependencies:
  • github:hercules-ci/flake-parts
  • github:vic/import-tree
  • github:numtide/treefmt-nix
• No longer need manual exceptions in most test flakes

expect-failure

• Fix job extension to properly merge verify jobs
• All jobs get allow_failure, after_script, and artifacts
• Supports composable expect-failure (expect-failure of expect-failure)
• Remove backticks from job names to fix needs dependencies

remote/gitlab-ci.yml

• Update to consistent naming convention:
  • generate-flake-ci → generate:flake-ci
  • flake-ci → build:flake-ci

Documentation

• Comprehensive documentation for all modules
• New documentation for: systems, expect-failure, child-pipeline
• Updated stage ordering and job naming conventions
• Library functions documented: findFlakes, mkValidatorModule

Bug Fixes

• Fix formatting issues in child-pipeline.nix
• Fix expect-failure module to properly extend all jobs
• Fix needs dependencies by removing backticks from job names
• All formatting checks now pass

See ChangeLog.md for complete details.