On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:01:27 -0400 John Snow <js...@redhat.com> wrote:
> If you're in the CC list, it's because you are listed in MAINTAINERS. <cleared the cc: list except for qemu-devel :)> > > Paolo's QEMU keynote this morning mentioned the possible use of the > Gitlab issue tracker instead of using Launchpad. > > I'm quite fond of the gitlab issue tracker, I think it works quite well > and it has pretty good and uncomplicated API access to it in order to > customize your workflow if you'd really like to. > > In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a > way to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email > list. A move to gitlab would likely mean, then: > > 1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list > 2. The loss of the ability to update the issue tracker by replying to > said emails > 3. Anyone listed in MAINTAINERS would be expected to have a gitlab > account in order to interact with the issue tracker. The gitlab issue tracker is almost certainly is an improvement over launchpad (and I do have a gitlab account); but not being able to interact via email is at least annoying. I expect that not only maintainers will want to interact with bug reports? > > However, once you have a gitlab account, you DO gain the ability to > receive emails for issues; possibly only those tagged with labels that > you cared about -- giving a nice filtering mechanism to receive only > bugs you care about. > > Gitlab also does support individual accounts updating issues using a > generated personalized email address, so if the email workflow is > crucial to you, it is still available. You mean that I can update via email, provided it's an address associated with my account? > > I'm for it, or at least for beginning a pilot program where we > experiment with the idea for interested parties. I wanted to send up a > trial balloon to see how we were feeling about this. > > --js
