Transition to Gitlab Complete

[Ben Cooksley]

Good morning all,

Over the past 24 hours Sysadmin has been busy working on transitioning
everything from git.kde.org over to invent.kde.org (Gitlab) a process
which we have now essentially completed.
All repositories with the exception of personal (scratch and clone)
repositories have been migrated successfully now. We intend to migrate
the remaining personal repositories over the coming week.

You should all be aware of the following:

-- Work Branches --

As part of the transition to Gitlab, we have also simultaneously
rolled out work branches.

These are branches that live within the normal repositories, but do
not have notification hooks triggered on them. This means that they
will not close bugs, send email or be announced on IRC. As such, they
can also be force pushed.
Any branch prefixed with the name 'work/' is considered to be a work branch.

It is important to note that the server will enforce a maximum number
of 100 commits divergence between a work branch and any other normal
branch (those not prefixed with work/) in the repository.
This is necessary to protect our systems when the work branch is
merged to a normal/release branch (which is when the hooks will
process all of those commits)

We therefore do not recommend work branches for long term work such as
GSoC projects or other significant items of work - normal branches
should be used for these.

All other branches will continue to be subject to normal commit hook
processing, and cannot be force pushed.

-- Migration Helpers --

To assist with the migration to Gitlab, Sysadmin earlier mentioned a
series of helper tools which could be used to clone repositories
conveniently from Gitlab as well as migrate existing clones.

To set these up, you will need a clone of 'sysadmin/repo-metadata' on
your local system, along with Python3 and PyYAML (packaged as
python3-yaml on most distributions) installed on your system.
Once you have these, add the folder 'git-helpers' in
'sysadmin/repo-metadata' to $PATH and you should be good to go.

Please note that 'git kpull' at the moment is only able to perform the
initial migration from anongit.kde.org/git.kde.org to invent.kde.org
urls.
Additional patches to improve this are welcome.

-- Conclusion --

Apologies for the disruption this caused - please note that a number
of systems that work closely with the Git repositories are in the
process of catching up with the transition at the moment.
During this time there may be some disruption to them, however we hope
that this will all be completed over the coming week.

Should anyone have any questions regarding this, please let us know
(via sysadmin at kde.org)

Thanks,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin