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On 20 March 2018 at 18:01, Carlos Soriano <csori...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Hello community,
>
> After a few months of manually migrating projects we have moved already
> over 60, most of them were core modules to make sure the most important
> projects were migrated before the mass migration happens. We are now at the
> point where a mass migration makes more sense than continuing handling
> migrations one by one, in part also because of the increasing amount of
> requests.
>
> *Proposed plan and timeline for mass migration*
>
> - Projects that want their bugs migrated will create an issue in our
> infrastructure similar to this
> <https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/GitLab/issues/172> over the next
> two months. These project bugs will be migrated to GitLab issues between
> June 1st and June 15th 2018. [0]
> - Individual projects that it's important for them to move to GitLab
> sooner (i.e. GSoC projects, core modules, etc.) can still do so with the
> same procedure as before. Feel free to ping me regularly about those.
> - Projects that doesn't create an issue for bug migration will migrate
> only the repository, also by June 1st 2018.
> - Projects that didn't opt in to migrating bugs can still do so while
> Bugzilla is not phased out, however timing will be different and the issues
> will be migrated in batches once every two months or so.
> - Bugzilla will only allow comments by June 1st 2018. Reporting new bugs
> on Bugzilla will be disabled. New issues will be reported and managed in
> GNOME's GitLab.
> - Bugzilla will be phased out and much likely converted into a static
> website by February 2020 (the proposed date may vary as we're still
> evaluating all the possible solutions to make sure all the bugs will remain
> available in read-only mode after Bugzilla's service decommission). We'll
> still evaluating possible ways of keeping old bugs available for historical
> reasons.
> - Cgit will be phased out and removed by June 1st 2018.
>
> The goal is to have all GNOME projects moved to GitLab by GUADEC 2018; I
> left some time for eventual issues between 15th June and 6th July.
>
> If you are a maintainer and you consider some issue in the migration
> process or GitLab itself a big problem for your project, please take a look
> if we are tracking it already in the upstream priorities for GNOME
> <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43566>. If we do so,
> consider those are ongoing effort items and hopefully there will be some
> progress in the upcoming months. If we don't track it, either create an
> issue in our infrastructure (preferred, so others can comment too) with the
> link to the upstream report or contact me in IRC or email and we can
> discuss if it should be considered part of our GNOME priorities.
>
> Feel free to share your thoughts and comments about the proposal and I
> hope the timeline fits well with your activities.
>
> *General update*
>
> - GitLab worked upstream
> <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22292> on *being able to
> rebase and modify non-dev* (from forks) MR/branches as we requested
> recently and the feature will be available on the 22nd of this month. Let
> me share our thanks to them for taking quick action.
> - Issues with *login/register raising 500 errors *due to Google's
> ReCAPTCHA are now fixed.
> - Amazon AWS for *CI on-demand* is set up and available to use, CI should
> be fast and scalable. This is being possible thanks to the help of
> sponsors, stay tuned for the actual announcements.
>
> [0] This is because it's not feasible to migrate all the issues from
> Bugzilla for several technical details, and from what we experienced with
> other projects the migration of bugs don't achieve as much as was thought.
> Projects can take this as an opportunity to start using new features of
> GitLab to be more efficient towards issue management.
>
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