[Spice-devel] gitlab

[Victor Toso]

Hi all,

I created a spice group in gitlab [0] mirroring the repository from
freedesktop which should be updated every hour.

[0] https://gitlab.com/groups/spice

But I would like to discuss the transition to use gitlab for source code
at some time soon. One of the main reasons is the management for users
and repos being much easier with no need to file a bug and wait some
fdo admin to have time to do it.

As pointed by Daniel [1] while discussing the migration of libosinfo to
gitlab, we would still be under open source infrastructure with good
self-service API for managing the project plus other benefits.

[1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2016-March/msg00000.html

The idea is keeping freedesktop and github [2] as a mirror of gitlab
repos. I'm not sure about moving from bugzilla to the issues thing but I
guess it might make sense in the future.

[2] https://github.com/SPICE

The pull requests can be disable int gitlab (while we can't on github)
but I wonder if should do that?

As we are at it, I would suggest to rename:

* linux/vd_agent to spice-vdagent (currently vdagent on gitlab)
* win32/vd_agent to spice-vdagent-win (currently vdagent-win on gitlab)

It would be great to hear from current contributors about this!

Cheers,
  toso