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On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 16:34 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> The pull-based mirroring is a bit sad, as it would be nice to auto-update |
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> some forks, but it's not a killer feature. |
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Exactly. Especially that our push-based mirroring is better, |
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and I think that's how we want to populate it. |
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> I think our new SSO solution |
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> could potentially be a fix for the auth subsystems, but more work there |
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> will be needed. |
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I think SSO should be the primary login to our GitLab, especially for |
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our users. GitHub login is a must. |
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> Another major issue is operating the software. I haven't found anyone to |
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> *run* gitlab; I'm not eager to do it. Today Gentoo is mostly distributed, |
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> bugs are in bugzilla, wiki is on mediawiki, code is on gitolite with N |
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> mirrors, email and lists are separate, etc. In a world where bugs, wiki, |
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> code, ci, containers, PRs, are all on gitlab and it breaks and we can't fix |
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> it; it will be bad news for all of those things. If the bugzilla machine |
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> breaks we lose bugzilla; if gitlab breaks we lose the ability to edit the |
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> wiki, file bugs, commit, run CI, etc. |
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But who says we want to migrate them all into GitLab? I thought our |
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primary goal was to replace today's GitHub use, i.e. provide |
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an alternative pipeline for pull/merge requests. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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