By request, cc'ing this list. 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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