Re: [gentoo-dev] Value of Continuous integration vs Code Review / Pull Requests

[Alec Warner]

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:17 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 16:34 -0700, Alec Warner wrote:
> > The pull-based mirroring is a bit sad, as it would be nice to auto-update
> > some forks, but it's not a killer feature.
>
> Exactly.  Especially that our push-based mirroring is better,
> and I think that's how we want to populate it.
>

So you want to keep gitolite then?


>
> >  I think our new SSO solution
> > could potentially be a fix for the auth subsystems, but more work there
> > will be needed.
>
> I think SSO should be the primary login to our GitLab, especially for
> our users.  GitHub login is a must.
>

I'm fairly sure both gitlab and gitea support this requirement.


>
> > Another major issue is operating the software. I haven't found anyone to
> > *run* gitlab; I'm not eager to do it. Today Gentoo is mostly distributed,
> > bugs are in bugzilla, wiki is on mediawiki, code is on gitolite with N
> > mirrors, email and lists are separate, etc. In a world where bugs, wiki,
> > code, ci, containers, PRs, are all on gitlab and it breaks and we can't
> fix
> > it; it will be bad news for all of those things. If the bugzilla machine
> > breaks we lose bugzilla; if gitlab breaks we lose the ability to edit the
> > wiki, file bugs, commit, run CI, etc.
> >
>
> But who says we want to migrate them all into GitLab?  I thought our
> primary goal was to replace today's GitHub use, i.e. provide
> an alternative pipeline for pull/merge requests.
>

Oh I don't, but we then need to disable all of them and restrict their
usage.

-A


>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>
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