Gitlab Turn-off Issues

[Nicolás Alvarez]

El dom., 28 de jun. de 2020 a la(s) 19:02, Albert Astals Cid
(aacid at kde.org) escribió:
>
> El diumenge, 28 de juny de 2020, a les 22:29:06 CEST, Nicolás Alvarez va escriure:
> > El dom., 28 de jun. de 2020 a la(s) 16:47, Nate Graham (nate at kde.org) escribió:
> > >
> > > On 6/28/20 12:28 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:28 AM Allen Winter <winter at kde.org> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Can we remove the Issues feature on all invent projects?
> > > >> We're starting to see more and more people adding Issues.
> > > >>
> > > >> For KOrganizer, bshah replaced Issues with Bugzilla.
> > > >>
> > > >> I very much doubt we want or are ready to replace Bugzilla.
> > > >
> > > > As has been discussed *far too many times* already, we have NO
> > > > INTENTION to replace Bugzilla at this stage.
> > > > This matter has been discussed on many threads, including on this list
> > > > in the past.
> > > >
> > > > Issues on Gitlab is intended to be the replacement for Phabricator Tasks.
> > > > Disabling them would leave projects with no developer task management
> > > > functionality, which would be highly undesirable as they are heavily
> > > > used by a number of projects.
> > > >
> > > > Your request to disable them for all KDE projects is therefore declined.
> > >
> > > The problem with this approach is that users familiar with GitHub or
> > > GitLab in other projects will not stop submitting bug reports using
> > > GitLab issues as long as it's turned on in its current form
> >
> > Hmm... Users familiar with GitHub in other projects will not stop
> > submitting pull requests on the KDE GitHub mirror as long as that's
> > turned on, and GitHub doesn't even let us turn off pull requests.
> > Should we get rid of the GitHub mirror? Or should we keep closing pull
> > requests and telling people to send their patches to Invent instead?
> > (This is only half-rhetoric, I actually wouldn't mind getting rid of
> > the GitHub mirror :P)
> >
> > > However the issue (har har) of users submitting bug reports and feature
> > > requests using GitLab issues is not likely to disappear without some
> > > kind of change.
> >
> > We can't easily change the label of the sidebar button. But what about
> > a banner like this:
> > https://invent.kde.org/games/kbounce/-/issues/new
> >
> > Do you think this would help?
>
> When creating an issue in gitlab.com you get a long wall of text saying what you have to do https://i.imgur.com/ly2mU3M.png
>
> Could we have something like that by default saying "this is for developer tasks for bugs/issues use bugs.kde.org" ?

Apparently that's not available in GitLab's free edition:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/description_templates.html#setting-a-default-template-for-merge-requests-and-issues--starter

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