Retiring Phabricator - Migrating tasks to Gitlab

[Michael Reeves]

What's the plan for sys admin tickets currently needed to publish releases?

May 26, 2023 5:10:43 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>:

> On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 9:31 AM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 5/23/23 03:48, Ben Cooksley wrote:>     Also, in Phabricator, Tasks
>> have no real "home"; they just have project
>>>     tags, and they can have multiple such tags to be able to belong to
>>>     multiple projects. For example "VDG" and also "Plasma". Such a Task
>>>     shows up in both projects' workboards. But in GitLab, Issues need to
>>>     live in one place and only one place. So for such Phab tasks, we would
>>>     need a way to determine the single new home of the Task in GitLab, and
>>>     perhaps tag them with global-scope labels or something?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, we would need to do a deconflicting process there.
>>> Any thoughts on the best approach to that?
>> 
>> At least in the case where a Task is tagged with VDG and also something
>> else, it probably makes sense to have it live on GitLab in the
>> "something else" project/group/etc. Back in the Phab days, we used to
>> tag everything VDG-relevant with the VDG tag, but on Gitlab it probably
>> makes more sense to just CC the "@teams/vdg" group instead.
> 
> Excellent, sounds like we've got a path forward then.
> 
> I will look at publishing a list of projects this weekend (separate thread) so people can nominate the project that should receive those issues.
> Note that if existing projects don't really fit (because it is for a collection of projects) we may want to consider use of something like was setup for KF6 (https://invent.kde.org/teams/frameworks-devs/kf6-workboard for instance)
>  
>> 
>> Nate
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben
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