Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:35 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/13/20 4:44 AM, Albert Vaca Cintora wrote:
> > Regarding this: is the subdomain going to stay invent.kde.org once we
> > have officially moved? I find it's a bit confusing to use that instead
> > of gitlab.kde.org
>
> I agree. gitlab.kde.org would make more sense to me, mirroring
> phabricator.kde.org.
>

There is no intention to change the name from invent.kde.org.

We have a long precedent of not using the name of the software for the
name in DNS, and Gitlab is continuing with this, for example:
- bugs.kde.org is run by Bugzilla
- dot.kde.org is run by Drupal
- techbase.kde.org is run by Mediawiki
- conf.kde.org is run by Frab
- reimbursements.kde.org is run by travel-support-program
- websvn.kde.org is run by ViewVC
- build.kde.org and binary-factory.kde.org are both run by Jenkins
- stats.kde.org is run by Matomo (formerly Piwik)
- survey.kde.org is run by Limesurvey

For essentially all of the above, calling it after the software
running it makes no sense, and given that in some cases we have
multiple instances would have made things more confusing
(jenkins1.kde.org and jenkins2.kde.org anyone?)

Phabricator and Reviewboard were the only ones to not follow this
rule, and that was an error on our part.

Given that there is a popular instance at Gitlab.com, referring to
ours as "KDE Invent" is more likely to ensure newcomers are not
confused (as they may not be aware that you can setup an instance of
Gitlab on your own systems)

Regards,
Ben