> Then there is salsa... I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's > this big beast with tons of javascript and apparently we are not even > dog-fooding gitlab as packaged in Debian to overseves. I'd like our > infrastructure to be based on the things we offer in our distro. And it's just > so much javascript... I cannot open a build log in the browser without it > just > vanishing before my eyes with an error message in red at the top. My computer > is slow (ARM Cortex A53) and this does not play well with it. I wish there was > a way to interact with it from my terminal instead of having to click on > buttons in a very slow web interface.
We actually have `glab`[0] packaged in Debian Sid, Trixie and Bookworm-backports now, so there is a relatively easy to use way of accessing it from the CLI. [0] https://packages.debian.org/sid/glab