Description of Problem

When triggering PaC Pipelines with GitLab, the flow only works if developers create their own branches on a given repository. They cannot use the more typical "personal fork" approach to trigger PaC builds.

This is a known limitation that is not well documented upstream (and perhaps downstream, too?). Konflux generally relies on upstream documentation for its subprojects/components.

Original support request:

Request type: Error / Bug
Reason of urgency: We can work around this by manually checking whether CI passed and then force merging, but that adds even more friction

        gitlab pipline status <-> konflux sync not working
        The gitlab <-> konflux pipeline integration seems to have just gone missing in https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/containers/bootc/

It was getting less reliable recently but now just seems to have completely lost.

We can manually note that the job passed and force merge, but this is obviously suboptimal.

See also https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C066HLR2RGA/p1742320139968869?thread_ts=1741960711.903619&cid=C066HLR2RGA