Update on Status of Gitlab Migration

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:30 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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

We also use git.kde.org and svn.kde.org.

It would too mimic what others are doing at gitlab.gnome.org and
gitlab.freedesktop.org. So at the very least we'll want a redirect.

Aleix