[Mesa-dev] Switching to Gitlab Issues instead of Bugzilla?

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2019-08-30 at 14:26 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Stone (2019-08-30 14:13:08)
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 at 21:35, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I think so. I just want a list of all bugs that may affect the code I'm
> > > working on, wherever they were filed. I have a search in bugs.fdo, I
> > > just need instructions on how to get the same from gitlab, hopefully in
> > > a compact format.
> > 
> > It's not clear to me what you need. Can you please give more details?
> 
> At the moment, I always have open a couple of searches which are basically
> 
> Product: DRI, Mesa, xorg
> Component: Driver/intel, Drivers/DRI/i830, Drivers/DRI/i915, Drivers/DRI/i965, Drivers/Vulkan/intel, DRM/AMDgpu, DRM/Intel, IGT
> Status: NEW, ASSIGNED, REOPENED, NEEDINFO
> 
> I would like a similar way of getting a quick glance at the issues under
> discussion and any new issues across the products -- basically I want a
> heads up in case I've broken something, however subtle. And sometimes
> you just need to trawl through every bug in case you missed something.

You can do a top-level search for arbitrary strings, and get a list of
matching issues:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/search?group_id=&project_id=&repository_ref=&scope=issues&search=i965

But that's perhaps not super useful. There's no way to globally search
for issues with a particular label, probably because labels are scoped
either to projects or groups and not site-wide. But you _do_ get
project-wide labels, so we could promote mesa/mesa's i965 label to be
usable from mesa/*. The xorg project has this already for some labels:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/xorg/-/labels
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/groups/xorg/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name[]=gsoc

This probably implies that we'd want the kernel repo to be a mesa
subproject. And then you'd just have top-level label searches for the
xorg and mesa projects.

> > If you want cross-component search results in a single list, that's
> > not really something we can do today, and I don't know if it would
> > land any time soon. You can however subscribe to particular issue
> > labels, and when you see something that catches your eye add a 'todo'
> > for it, then the main UI shows all your outstanding todos, including
> > where people have mentioned you etc.
> 
> One thing we did for bugzilla was set the default QA component to a
> mailing list, so we had a single place to subscribe to get all the spam.
> I presume something similar would be available to subscribe to every
> issue across a range of categories.

You (individually) can subscribe to a label (per-project-or-group),
yes. Subscribing a mailing list to a label is somewhat awkward since
the email address for an account is where things like password reset
requests get sent.

- ajax