Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

[Christoph Cullmann]

Hi,

I just want to express my big thanks for all the work that went into 
this!

Thanks to all people involved in making this happen and 
maintaining/improving all
our other infrastructure.

Besides, happy Easter and become/stay healthy!

Greetings
Christoph

On 2020-04-11 11:35, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Good morning Community,
> 
> I'm pleased to report that this week we reached a major milestone,
> with all the necessary technical components now being in place on our
> side for our migration to Gitlab to take place.
> 
> This includes the replacement of the tooling that supports the anongit
> network, as well as implementation of a system to sync changes from
> Identity to Gitlab in real time.
> 
> As part of this, the anongit network following the migration to Gitlab
> should pick up new repositories, along with changes to default
> branches, project descriptions, repository names and their path, and
> the deletion of repositories within 10 seconds of the change taking
> place on Gitlab (effectively making it real time)
> 
> We are currently looking to confirm how repositories will be organised
> on Gitlab, after which we should be able to confirm how and when we
> perform the migration.
> 
> Please note that only code hosting and code review will be
> transitioning at this time - CI and tasks will follow later on.
> Existing reviews on Phabricator will not be imported to Gitlab as part
> of this process and will need to be closed out on Phabricator.
> 
> To help assist with this, it would be appreciated if all holders of a
> KDE Developer account could please login on our Gitlab instance (at
> https://invent.kde.org/) and ensure they are listed as a 'Developer'
> of the KDE group. You can do this by checking the 'Groups' tab of your
> Profile on Gitlab.
> 
> Should you not be listed as a Developer of the group, and you have
> previously logged into Gitlab, please visit KDE Identity and make a
> change to your details there, which will trigger a sync of your
> account to Gitlab.
> 
> Should anyone have any questions on the above, please let us know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin

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