Those have always been considered as part of middleware (lipstick is a
framework), Nemo UI/Glacier still sits on top outside mer core

2015-07-29 18:10 GMT+02:00 Timur Kristóf <timur.kris...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Just one question: how (if at all) does this change affect Nemo's UI and
> its UI-related libraries (such as lipstick, mlite, ... etc)?
>
> Best regards,
> Timur
>
> On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 15:22 +0100, David Greaves wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> We've been working on the Nemo/Mer merge on and off for some time now and 
> wanted
> to provide an update.
>
> There's tl;dr; job if you're a maintainer: login to git.merproject.org so the
> system 'sees' you and can grant permissions.
>
> The goal of this task is to merge the middleware packages from Nemo into Mer
> Core and to move the git hosting from various Nemo and Mer repositories
> scattered around github and other services into mer-core on git.merproject.org
> (g.m.o)
>
> These are the main tasks:
> * provide a mechanism to manage maintainer access rights
> * create git repos on git.merproject.org
> * ensure Mer OBS / webhooks point to g.m.o
> * Improve visibility of Mer source/packages/maintainers
>
> Improving Visibility
>
> So, tackling the last point first there's a new "dashboard" here:
>    http://www.merproject.org/dash/index.html
>
> (That url may well change)
>
> The data shown is taken from :
> * Maintainer file (see below) is the master for who has owner/master roles on
> the git repos (when they move to Mer git)
> * OBS _service files and other OBS data
> * Mer gitlab
> * Mer LDAP maps usernames to emails/real names
> I'll add webhook data soon and it will master the mapping from git repo to OBS
> packages
>
> There are still some issues but it's best to get a first draft out.
>
>
> Managing Maintainership
>
> The approach taken for the maintainer rights is to create a text (yaml) file
> that describes the access rights (developer/owner) for all the mer-core 
> packages.
> https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/Maintainers/blob/master/maintainers.yaml
>
> This allows anyone to quickly find out who maintains a particular package and
> also allows automation systems to apply these permissions to g.m.o
>
> The commnity manages this file: anyone can submit a MR to it to change the
> maintainership and if it's accepted by the mer-core maintainers the permission
> changes will automatically be applied (well, eventually).
>
> Purely for ease of management/comprehension the file format supports the 
> notion
> of teams and package-groups but these are not reflected in gitlab for various
> reasons. The team/group names are pretty arbitrary and can be changed 
> trivially
> - they just provide some context for the grouping.
>
> Creating git repos
>
> We've replicated about 170 repos from github projects:
>   https://github.com/[nemomobile, nemomobile-packages, mer-packages]
>
> What I've done (hopefully!) is to take the current/old Mer master branch and
> rename it to master-premerge. Then I've set mer/master to be the github 
> master.
>
> In some cases where we've moved on from the old 'tarballs in git' there may be
> no commits in common and we'll end up with an 'orphan' branch (google it)
>
> Maintainers should check the repos to make sure I've not messed up :)
>
> OBS
> We'll be setting up webhooks for mer-core which should never need modifying. I
> suspect that the OBS mer-core project will just have a few caretakers to 
> handle
> new packages on request.
>
>
> Next Steps
>
> * These maintainers should login to https://git.merproject.org/ :
>    amccarthy antseppa blam chriadam giucam hmallat jpetrell mikkoh monich 
> mvogt
>    pgerdt phdeswer rbraakman rozhkov sletta spiiroin VDVsx Venemo Vesuri
>
> * As development moves from github to mer-core the github repos should have a
> redirection commit added (ie delete all files and create a README that sends
> people to g.m.o)
>
>
> David/lbt
>
>
>
>

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