[igt-dev] Gitlab Migration

[Daniel Vetter]

Gentle ping, in case anyone has any concerns or questions.
-Daniel

On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For context: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2018-August/187071.html
>
> I think we're ready to migrate the igt repo. Note that this is _just_
> the git migration, besides a different url nothing will change. So
> patches still reviewed on the mailing lists, bugs still in bugzilla.
>
> Roug plan:
> - Make sure there's no opens and everyone's aware (= this thread here).
>
> - fd.o admins will migrate all the accounts in the igt group. We've
> added quite a few more people since the initial account migration
> happened in spring this year, all those folks do not yet have a gitlab
> account. Most likely this will happen after XDC.
>
> - All committers need to active their gitlab account:
>
> 1. Go to gitlab.freedesktop.org -> Sign In/Register -> Forgot my
> password. Note that you need to use the email you've used when
> creating your fd.o shell account. The gitlab username will match your
> fd.o name. If you don't know which mail, ping fd.o admins.
>
> Important: If your account hasn't been migrated yet, please do _not_
> jump ahead and create it. It'll cause headaches for fd.o admins when
> migrating the git repository (since we need to manually fix things
> up).
>
> 2. Set up your SSH keys: Make sure you're logged in, then go to
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/profile/keys
>
> - After 1 week we'll migrate the repository. It'll be at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/igt-gpu-tools.
>
> 3. Update your git remotes to use the ssh urls. It'll be
> git at gitlab.freedesktop.org:drm/igt-gpu-tools.git
>
> 4. Optional: Use the UI to fork that project into your personal gitlab
> space, and also adjust your remote for that (if you're using). Note
> that for now the fork relationship isn't really important, and it can
> be fixed up after the fact, but it's nice to have all the forks easily
> discoverable.
>
> - fd.o scripts will maintain a read-only mirror at the current
> location. As long as you don't need to push there's no reason to
> update the remote urls or do anything else. CI, integrators, distros,
> contributors without commit rights all don't have to care about this.
>
> [Numbered steps is what committers should do.]
>
> Questions? Anything we've missed in the planning?
>
> Once everything is clear we'll fix the exact dates for each of these
> migration steps.
>
> For details the fd.o task where all this is getting discussed with fd.o admins:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/issues/69
>
> Cheers, Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch



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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch