Fwd: KDE evaluating migration to GitLab

[Zoltan Padrah]

FYI

I like the idea (partially because I have never managed to figure out how
to use phabricator effectively)

 Zoltan

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From: Neofytos Kolokotronis <neofytosk at posteo.net>
Date: 2019. jan. 16., Sze, 0:32
Subject: KDE evaluating migration to GitLab
To: <kde-community at kde.org>


Hello everyone,

we would like to inform all of you that a team consisting of the KDE
sysadmin, e.V. board and onboarding goal members has been in talks with
Gitlab about a possible migration of KDE from Phabricator (and perhaps
other tools that can be replaced by it) to a self-hosted GitLab CE
instance. Some further information can be found here:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53206.

We have been holding regular calls with Gitlab and the discussion has
been going very well, with GitLab being very reactive to our questions
and requests. The KDE e.V. members are kept up to date after every call.

Thanks to the great work put in by sysadmin, we now have an initial
setup of GitLab available for testing: https://invent.kde.org/ .

Several KDE projects are currently helping us test the implementation
and workflows. These have been chosen for being:
- Small in number of contributors involved and not having complex and
very large code repositories
- Rather active (so they can test things), but not rely heavily on
Phabricator or have regular deadlines to catch so their workflow doesn't
break
- Willing to go through the initial hurdles and help with testing and
gathering feedback.

The results of this evaluation are meant to eventually be released to
the wider KDE community, along with a recommendation from the people
involved. Where we go from there will depend on the outcome of the
discussion this is meant to jump-start in an informed way.

We tried to keep this under the radar until we had some solid feedback
from the testing phase. The news however broke out recently on Reddit:
1.
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/adnmd7/kde_is_considering_a_migration_to_gitlab/
2.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ado2c8/kde_is_considering_a_migration_to_gitlab/
To avoid any confusion and misunderstandings, but most importantly to
start the discussion within the wider KDE community, we thought it would
be better to communicate this in a more official way to everyone.

If you are new to GitLab the list of available features can prove
helpful: https://about.gitlab.com/features/

Here are some answers to the FAQs we received so far:
- Why not use the GitLab Enterprise version?
   KDE is commited to only using software under a FOSS license.
- Why a new switch? We switched to Phabricator a few years ago.
   We hope that GitLab will prove to offer a variety of features that
will improve our workflow in the longt-erm and will lower the barrier
for new contributors joining us.
- Why GitLab and not another option?
   We know there are other solutions available (gitea.io, sr.ht,
pagure.io to name a few) but we chose GitLab as they have been working
closely with other FOSS projects (including Debian, GNOME) and we hope
they can offer us a feature-filled solution and a great partnership
going forward.

Feel free to ask any further questions here.

Let's have a productive testing phase and discussion!

Cheers,
Neofytos
on behalf of the team involved in the discussions
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