John Snow <js...@redhat.com> writes:
> On 10/29/20 3:55 PM, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 29/10/2020 18.12, John Snow wrote: >>> On 10/29/20 12:49 PM, Alistair Francis wrote: >>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:41 AM Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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 It would miss this feature as sometimes I get wind of things I can track down. On the other hand there is a fair bit of list noise at the end of a release when stuff gets closed. >>>>>> 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. Not a problem for me at least - it's just another (2FA) account. <snip> >> So could somebody please enable the issue tracker there, so we can give it a >> try? Phil? Alex? Stefan? ...? >> >> If it works well, I can certainly help to get the links etc. in our website >> fixed. >> > > Great! You are the primary bug wrangler, so if you are interested in > trialing it, I am interested in helping! > > If we enable the bug tracker, can we please add Thomas and myself as > 'Reporter' level contributors to QEMU so we can wrangle bugs? I have enabled the issue tracker and assigned Thomas and you the first bug. > Info on permissions: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/permissions.html > > There's also an old bug (2 years) about migrating Launchpad to Gitlab, > but there's been no movement. > > https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/22600 > > If we like the results of the trial, we'll need a convincing migration > strategy. Can we extract data as a CSV from Launchpad? -- Alex Bennée