gitlab migration

[Michel Dänzer]

On 2018-06-12 01:35 PM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On 11 June 2018 at 11:33, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
>> On 2018-06-08 08:08 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>>> I'd like us to start moving repos and bug tracking into gitlab.
>>> Hopefully everyone's aware that gitlab exists and why fdo projects are
>>> migrating to it. If not, the thread about Mesa's migration provides
>>> some useful background:
>>>
>>> https://lists.x.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-May/195634.html
>>>
>>> This should be mostly mechanical, except for moving some of the older
>>> junk into the archive and deciding which drivers _not_ to move yet (I
>>> imagine intel has some of its processes hooked up to bz, for example).
>>
>> As the maintainer of xf86-video-amdgpu and -ati, I'm fine with migrating
>> these to GitLab for Git and patch review.
>>
>> However, I'm not sure what to do about bugs/issues. My first thought was
>> to allow creating new issues in GitLab and disable creating new reports
>> in Bugzilla, but not to migrate existing reports from Bugzilla. However,
>> it still happens fairly often that a report is initially filed against
>> the Xorg drivers, even though it's actually an issue in the X server,
>> Mesa or the kernel (old habits die hard...). Therefore, I'm inclined to
>> stick to Bugzilla until at least the X server and Mesa have moved to
>> GitLab for issue tracking, to hopefully allow moving such misfiled issues.
> 
> One thing some Mesa people said during that discussion is that they
> like the ability to move issues between Mesa and the kernel, which
> won't be possible if they're on split systems. So I probably wouldn't
> hold my breath for that to be honest.

Then I'd rather not use GitLab issues for these drivers at all either
for the time being.

The same argument applies to xserver as well, but I won't stand in the
way of migrating that to GitLab issues.


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