Please note I don't think this will be a problem for macOS packaging at all, but we do it differently than other folks.
On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 1:45 PM Steven A. Falco <stevenfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/9/19 12:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > The lead development team has been discussing migrating the KiCad > > project to GitLab[1]. > > For packagers, I'm curious as to how creating an archive from a tag would > work. Currently, to grab the source from launchpad, we use a URL like: > > https://launchpad.net/kicad/5.0/%{version}/+download/kicad-%{version}.tar.xz > > where %{version} is a Fedora macro that expands to the desired version. This > apparently works because Wayne explicitly uploads the tarball to launchpad. > > For github, we use: > > https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/archive/%{version}.tar.gz > > This works because github has an API that creates the tarball on-demand. > > I found some references regarding how this works in GitLab. For example, > please see Issue 38830: > > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/38830 > > According to that issue, you can request a tarball from GitLab, similarly to > what you would do with GitHub. However, when you request a tarball of a tag, > the SHA will be part of the filename. Worse, the top level directory will > also contain the SHA. > > This will complicate packaging, because we'll need to know the expected SHAs > for each of the 7 repos, and rename the directories as the tarballs are > unpacked. Or I suppose we could use wildcards to achieve the same thing. It > is certainly doable, but it is a bit ugly. > > Steve > > > Given the issues with Launchpad, I think this is > > a good move. I've applied for an open source GitLab license. Assuming > > we get accepted, I would like to start this process after the 5.1.5 > > release. Here is a short list of action items that need to be done for > > the source repo transition: > > > > * Freeze the Launchpad source repo. > > * Push the frozen repo to GitLab. > > * Disable the Launcpad bug tracker. > > * Add a note and link to the Launcpad project page that the project is > > now hosted on GitLab. > > * Create blog announcement once the transition is complete. > > > > There are a few unknowns: > > > > Would it be possible to migrate open bug reports to GitLab? I suspect > > we could come up with a script like we did when we migrated from > > SourceForge. > > > > What to do about the mailing list? GitLab doesn't support mailing lists > > yet so I'm thinking we leave the mailing list on Launchpad for the short > > term. We can always migrate the mailing list at a later date or use > > some other communication tool such as discourse. > > > > Further down the road, I would like to see all of the KiCad source repos > > including the library, documentation, website, and translation repos > > migrated to GitLab as well. It would make my life a lot easier from a > > project management perspective if they were all in the same place. I > > expect there to be some resistance to using a source code version tool > > but I'm hoping folks will see this as a beneficial move. I'm not > > terribly familiar with GitLab but I suspect it's not that much different > > than GitHub as a hosting platform so I don't expect there to be a very > > steep learning curve. If you have any concerns, now is the time to > > speak up or forever hold your peace. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Wayne > > > > [1]: https://gitlab.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
