[Spice-devel] Gitlab - 2018!

[Lukáš Hrázký]

On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 16:15 +0100, Victor Toso wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There was a thread in 2016 about moving to gitlab [0] which it
> was not complete done. New projects have been started in gitlab
> instead of freedesktop and without notice, some users are even
> filling bugs there already [1].
> 
> [0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/spice-devel/2016-September/032456.html
> [1] https://gitlab.com/groups/spice/-/issues
> 
> Some issues around this is 'how to do patch review' or 'are we
> going to accept PR'. IMHO, I would like to first move the code
> infrastructure there while keeping our current work flow with ML.
> 
> I would like to suggest moving from bugzilla to gitlab issues
> too, in order to centralize code + issues but we don't need to do
> it right away.
> 
> But I don't think the current state is okay, with code and bugs
> in freedesktop + gitlab.
> 
> Please, I would love some feedback with this either way
> (okay/against it). If people don't want to move, we should make
> gitlab's instance a mirror (like github should be, but isn't) and
> use its gitlab-ci while disabling the issues/wiki, etc. and
> moving to freedesktop what was created in gitlab (spice-nsis,
> streaming-agent, maybe more).
> 
> Note that I did some naming changes with the gitlab repo that was
> pointed out in [0]. I'm 100% okay in moving back to how it is set
> in freedesktop.

I am in favor, but don't want to make a strong voice since I'm not that
familiar with all the details yet.

Thanks for pushing to resolve this though, I don't like the current
ambiguous state of things.

Cheers,
Lukas