[Spice-devel] Using GitLab

[Derek Lesho]

On 10/31/19 11:04 AM, Victor Toso wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:56:59AM -0500, Jeremy White wrote:
>> Hey Victor,
>>
>> On 10/31/19 10:46 AM, Victor Toso wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> You might note that the Gitlab activity will increase a bit
>>> from now on, hopefully. It was agreed within some SPICE
>>> collaborators to give a serious try on using this
>>> infrastructure that is available to us.
>>>
>>> One potential great change and challenge is the usage of
>>> merge requests in oppose to patch series over mailing list. I
>>> hope the benefits outweigh the downsides in the long run.
>> Derek has been working on a utility to integrate GitLab and a
>> mailing list, for experimentation by Wine.
>>
>> He's just gotten to the point of being ready to try a proof of
>> concept.
>> Would you guys be interested in this?
> What does it do exactly?
>
> Cheers,
> Victor

Hi Victor,

The bridge sends all the commits from merge-requests in patch form to 
the mailing list, as well as any comments the MR receives.  It also 
creates MRs from PATCH submissions to the mailing list.  The goal with 
this is to ensure the developers who are accustomed to using either 
system aren't isolated from developers using the other.  Optionally, the 
bridge can be configured to allow people to respond to the generated MRs 
and patch-sets, however this is disabled by default since it can be 
confusing based on the differences between email threads and GitLab 
discussions.

-Derek