[Spice-devel] gitlab

[Fabiano Fidêncio]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Victor Toso <lists at victortoso.com> wrote:
> Hi again!
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:48:39PM +0200, Victor Toso wrote:
>> 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
>
> https://gitlab.com/spice works too.
>
>>
>> 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)
>
> * Marc-André did not agree with renaming ^
>
>>
>> It would be great to hear from current contributors about this!
>>
>> Cheers,
>
> So, I put this on hold for some time but it would be great to discuss
> this once more.
>
> Last week I started to play with continuous integration in gitlab [0]
> which can be very useful to track if given commit is breaking
> builds, tests, etc. We also plan to setup a copr [1] repo to provide
> fedora builds to latest upstream. Pavel has worked in a script [2] that
> does that (if commit passes in previous stages like building, tests).
>
> [0] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/
> [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
> [2] https://gitlab.com/xerus/ci/tree/master

I guess is worth to check the CentOS CI. It can be easily integrated
with github/gitlab.
virt-viewer already makes use of that, libvirt as well as far as I remember.

>
> Does anyone disagree with moving to gitlab and making freedesktop a
> mirror?

I'm not part of the project anymore, but +1 from my side.

>
> Cheers,
>   toso
>
>
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Best Regards,
-- 
Fabiano Fidêncio