Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

[Bhushan Shah]

Hi Olivier,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Olivier Churlaud wrote:
> >Because in order to search for something, you need to know it exists.
> >
> >If you are just casually browsing, then the search can't help you.
> 
> I don't think people casually browse our repos. What use case is more likely to happen and do we want to support? 

We don't really want to discard use-cases just because it does not suit
our workflow. That is not how we are going to gain new contributors, we
should value each contribution, be it drive-by contribution, or focused
contribution towards one single project.

> Use case 1 : Jerry learns about KDE and go in their forge in the Multimedia section. After carefully reading the code of two applications and three libs he starts contributing to Elisa. 
> 
> Use case 2 : While using her Ubuntu installation of Elisa / while reading on reddit about Elisa, Jerry decides to try to contribute to this project/fix this bug that itches her and searches for it in KDE's forge. 

Let me add a some more usecases, some of which I've been dealing with in
project I maintain.

Use case 3 : Tom comes in Plasma Mobile channel and asks for Plasma
Mobile applications source code

Use case 4 : Tom is a student in Germany and is interested in
contributing to wikitolearn, and he asks where can I find code of the
wikitolearn?

Suggestion offered by sysadmin team does not cater to one single
use-case, but offers a way to provide a solution to all 4 usecases. For
Plasma Mobile team or Wikitolearn team it would be much easier to refer
contributors to the https://invent.kde.org/plasma-mobile or
https://invent.kde.org/wikitolearn then tell them to go to
https://invent.kde.org/KDE and search for the tag wikitolearn or Plasma
Mobile.

> On the other hand, I think the discussion about spotting open merge requests (in a derived thread from this one) should be answered, being by relevant tags, subgroups or whatever. 

(super personal note)

Ironically, Usecase 1 is how I started contributing to KDE 7 years back.
While I was inspired by battery monitor re-design in 4.11 release, I
wanted to work on "something" so I did literally browse through various
repositories to find something where my technical capabilities were
enough to work on [1]. Back then it was projects.kde.org (chiliproject
installation).

[1] https://blog.bshah.in/2013/09/01/hello-planet/

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