Re: Migrate to GitLab?

[João Valverde <joao.valverde () tecnico ulisboa pt>]

On 07/10/19 23:22, Gerald Combs wrote:
> About a year ago I posted a question to Ask[1] about migrating our development infrastructure to GitLab. I'd like to raise the 
> question again here on -dev, and if that's the direction we decide to go, start migrating late this year and/or early next year. 
> GitLab's feature set includes repository hosting, continuous integration, issue tracking, and wiki hosting. It could replace most 
> or all of the following in our environment:
>
> Gerrit, aka code.wireshark.org
> Bugzilla, aka bugs.wireshark.org
> Buildbot, aka buildbot.wireshark.org
> Moin, aka wiki.wireshark.org
>
> For new contributors, getting up and running with GitLab should be easier. GitLab doesn't require pushing to a special 
> remote reference and doesn't require a special Change ID in the commit message. It should also be more familiar. For better 
> or worse, the world seems to be standardizing on Git{Hub,Lab} and their respective workflows and tooling.
>
> For existing contributors and core developers, the review process would change a fair amount. The current [-2 .. +2] 
> approval system would either change or go away depending on the flavor of GitLab we use[2][3]. It also looks like you 
> can't edit a commit message in the web UI before merging[4].
>
> For the operations team, there *should* be less management overhead and lower operational expenses. We'd also have the 
> opportunity to replace a bunch of aging and loosely coupled products with a more tightly integrated system.
>
> Note that if we do decide to migrate to GitLab it won't happen all at once. For example, Moin isn't really tied to any 
> of our other infrastructure and could be migrated without affecting the other components. We can also set up a test/sandbox 
> environment in order to shake out as many bugs as possible before the actual migration.
>
> If we decide *not* to migrate to GitLab, we (the operations team) will still have to upgrade each component at some point. 
> In the case of Bugzilla and Buildbot, I'm not sure the updated version would suit our particular needs better than the 
> one we currently use.

Strongly in favor of migrating.

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