Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration: clarifications

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 1:08 AM Nicolás Alvarez
<nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 :?

I do too

> 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 :)

And then you'll have to have a modified build script to account for
thingy because KDE can't stay consistent at naming.

I suggest not to use the gitlab transition to make such an important change.

Aleix