Sysadmin report on the modernization of our infrastructure

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 January 2015 17:12:07 Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As promised in the earlier thread, i'd like to present the sysadmin
>> report on the state of the infrastructure surrounding our code.
>>
>> It contains a detailed summary of what is broken with our existing
>> systems, why change is necessary and an evaluation of the options we
>> considered. We have also made a proposal based on our evaluations and
>> the wishlist of functionality drawn up the community.
>>
>> Please find it attached - and let us know what you think. Feedback is
>> welcome.
>
> Another question regarding Phabricator:
>
> Currently, Chili offers a very nice tree structure of projects, which follows
> our KDE structure with frameworks, playground, extragear etc. pp. - nice!
>
> Can Phabricator do the same? I assumed so, from the fact that you hinted at it
> being able to generate the metadata XML file which is used by kdesrc-build to
> replicate the tree structure e.g.

We can probably use the tag feature of Phabricator to associate
repositories to projects.
This would allow us to tag projects as #extragear #multimedia as an
example - giving us a different form of structure.
It doesn't directly support the tree structure.

(I will add that the tree structure support in Chiliproject is part
sysadmin-hack, and is a big part of the upgrade problems associated
with it as the changes needed to support it are both highly invasive
and in an area which is regularly changed).

>
> But https://showoff.phab.io/project/ only shows a list of projects. Same for
> https://showoff.phab.io/diffusion/. I tried to create a new project and a new
> repository, and could not figure out how to create a tree with it.

Projects can't contain other projects with Phabricator i'm afraid.

>
> Bye

Thanks,
Ben

>
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