Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration: clarifications

[Nicolás Alvarez]

El jue., 30 de abr. de 2020 a la(s) 18:15, Albert Astals Cid
(aacid at kde.org) escribió:
>
> El dijous, 30 d’abril de 2020, a les 21:31:02 CEST, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> > On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 6:04 AM Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic at kde.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We have made a big fuss in the past about having different projects
> > > > that do the same thing and now we'll have that but also we'll have
> > > > several projects with the same name?
> > > > It really feels off to me and I wonder if this is related to the move to
> > > > gitlab.
> > >
> > > +1 to both sentiments - that projects should have different names and that
> > > this is a bit off topic for the gitlab migration.
> >
> > The projects *DO* have very different names. That *HAS NOT* changed.
> > To use the example Bhushan gave above, one is called Plasma Mobile
> > Dialer and the other one is called Maui Dialer.
> >
> > With the current git.kde.org setup, we have a flat namespace, so all
> > repositories if the name appears to be generic (as dialer is) have to
> > be namespaced by prefixing of the repository name.
> >
> > With Gitlab however we will now namespaces that group repositories,
> > making the prefixing unnecessary and as some projects have complained
> > about, duplicative.
> >
> > Otherwise you end up with plasma-mobile/plasma-mobile-dialer as your
> > path, which just looks silly.
>
> Am I the only person that just has all the repos on the same folder? I thought it was the common thing to do :?

Oh, your local path could be anywhere. It doesn't even need the same
name, you can put it in the same folder as the rest and call it
dial-thingy :)

This is about the server path (eg. the clone URL) looking redundant:
invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile/plasma-mobile-dialer.

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Nicolás