Migrating Wayland & Weston to GitLab

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sat May 12 01:59:22 UTC 2018


On 11/5/18 21:27 , Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On 10 May 2018 at 00:48, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 04:59:49PM +0100, Daniel Stone wrote:
>>> The first thing to happen is to migrate the central Git push point to
>>> GitLab. anongit.fd.o and cgit will still work as read-only mirrors,
>>> but you will not be able to push to git.fd.o. This would happen for
>>> all of wayland, wayland-protocols, weston and wayland-web. libinput we
>>> could move separately, wayland-build-tools is open to discussion (does
>>> it still work?), and wayland-java appears to be completely abandoned.
>>
>> regarding libinput: I'll release 1.11 over the next month or so, so the
>> options are basically: move now or move after that. I'd rather not
>> switch git repos between RCs.
> 
> Yeah, what I was trying to say was more like: there's no reason to
> pair the two together, so whatever we do and decide with Wayland here,
> libinput can move separately at its own pace. Probably makes sense to
> put it in a new group by now, especially if you want to group related
> tools with it, give it its own site, etc etc.

I know what you meant :) and my comment was "now" or "after the 
release", whichever is convenient. If you want to switch it all in one 
go, that's fine with me but 2 weeks from now would be inconvenient.

and yes, another group would be great.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
>> Otherwise I'm happy to move, I'm struggling with bugzilla, so I'm mostly
>> hoping that GitLab is going to be better (without having evaluated it
>> deeply :)
> 
> What could possibly go wrong? :)
> 
> More seriously, that sounds good - please remind me when the release
> has happened and you're ready to move and I'll get it migrated.
> 
>> Thanks for all the work on this btw.
> 
> No problem!
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 



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