On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 15:13 +0300, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote: > Hi there, > > No strong opinion here about GitLab, just a comment below... > > On Tue, 23 May 2017 11:21:25 +0200, Felipe Borges <felipe10borges@gma > il.com> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Cons: > > - not a big fan of the merge-request workflow > > - we will have a bunch of useless forks across the users' accounts > > I have seen this concern pop several times in this thread. Does > GitLab strictly require that a merge request is always started from a > fork?
No, this works exactly like in Github. > At least with GitHub and Gogs [1] it's possible to create merge > requests from a branch *in the same repository* (I use branches named > “<username>/<feature>” now and then). If everybody who is a > maintainer is going to have push access in the GNOME GitLab instance, > they can just push their branch to repository and create the merge > request from there — without needing to fork the repository into > their user space. Exactly. Only new contributors who don't have the permissions yet would need to create their own forks. -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list