Hope it goes well kdiff3 is currently using gitlab's ci in addition to the kde ci.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 5:32 PM Neofytos Kolokotronis <neofyt...@posteo.net wrote: > Hello everyone, > > we would like to inform all of you that a team consisting of the KDE > sysadmin, e.V. board and onboarding goal members has been in talks with > Gitlab about a possible migration of KDE from Phabricator (and perhaps > other tools that can be replaced by it) to a self-hosted GitLab CE > instance. Some further information can be found here: > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53206. > > We have been holding regular calls with Gitlab and the discussion has > been going very well, with GitLab being very reactive to our questions > and requests. The KDE e.V. members are kept up to date after every call. > > Thanks to the great work put in by sysadmin, we now have an initial > setup of GitLab available for testing: https://invent.kde.org/ . > > Several KDE projects are currently helping us test the implementation > and workflows. These have been chosen for being: > - Small in number of contributors involved and not having complex and > very large code repositories > - Rather active (so they can test things), but not rely heavily on > Phabricator or have regular deadlines to catch so their workflow doesn't > break > - Willing to go through the initial hurdles and help with testing and > gathering feedback. > > The results of this evaluation are meant to eventually be released to > the wider KDE community, along with a recommendation from the people > involved. Where we go from there will depend on the outcome of the > discussion this is meant to jump-start in an informed way. > > We tried to keep this under the radar until we had some solid feedback > from the testing phase. The news however broke out recently on Reddit: > 1. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/adnmd7/kde_is_considering_a_migration_to_gitlab/ > 2. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ado2c8/kde_is_considering_a_migration_to_gitlab/ > To avoid any confusion and misunderstandings, but most importantly to > start the discussion within the wider KDE community, we thought it would > be better to communicate this in a more official way to everyone. > > If you are new to GitLab the list of available features can prove > helpful: https://about.gitlab.com/features/ > > Here are some answers to the FAQs we received so far: > - Why not use the GitLab Enterprise version? > KDE is commited to only using software under a FOSS license. > - Why a new switch? We switched to Phabricator a few years ago. > We hope that GitLab will prove to offer a variety of features that > will improve our workflow in the longt-erm and will lower the barrier > for new contributors joining us. > - Why GitLab and not another option? > We know there are other solutions available (gitea.io, sr.ht, > pagure.io to name a few) but we chose GitLab as they have been working > closely with other FOSS projects (including Debian, GNOME) and we hope > they can offer us a feature-filled solution and a great partnership > going forward. > > Feel free to ask any further questions here. > > Let's have a productive testing phase and discussion! > > Cheers, > Neofytos > on behalf of the team involved in the discussions > >
