A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 16, 2017 15:04 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab by Conan_Kudo
Parent article: A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

"KDE, it's your turn!"

Huh? Turn to do what? We moved to Phabricator in 2014 or so.

A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 16, 2017 18:10 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (4 responses)

Personally I'd say that's not that much better than Sourceforge, but my only interaction with Phabricator has been as a "drive-by" contributor (3 years ago now? I don't know how up-to-date the deployment was. It was also not to KDE either if you're curious.). Requiring either special client-side tools or limited to "paste your patch content here" for contribution to a Git repository was…less than fun.

A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 17, 2017 18:33 UTC (Wed) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (3 responses)

Well, our sysadmins quickly discarded gitlab because it scaled very badly, the group system wouldn't fit a community like KDE very well -- and then they discovered that gitlab mails debug logs to a hard-coded gmail address.

I like phabricator's repo browsing, task system, possibility to create mockups and stuff, project boards and dashboards. I think its search abilities are below par. We don't use it to replace bugzilla (yet), instead users report to bugzilla, and, this is for Krita alone, I triage the bugs in bugzilla, and when I want action to be taken on a bug, I add a task in phabricator. So, phab is where our todo is, bugzilla where the user reports are.

A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 17, 2017 19:17 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

> they discovered that gitlab mails debug logs to a hard-coded gmail address.

Do you have details on this?

And I'm aware that one tool isn't going to fit everyone. I'm glad (but not surprised) that KDE chose a FOSS solution at least. I just didn't like Phabricator from a contributor POV when I was submitting a patch to a project using it.

A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 17, 2017 19:49 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

>> they discovered that gitlab mails debug logs to a hard-coded gmail address.
> Do you have details on this?

Even if true, that seems trivial to change or disable, given the full-source-code nature of gitlab...

A proposal to move GNOME to GitLab

Posted May 18, 2017 6:31 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

Trivial? You'd have to do a full scan of the code for every update. Sure it wasn't malicious, probably, just someone being stupid like all of us developers are sometimes, but for our volunteer sysadmins it was a dealbreaker. For more details, you'd have to ask them... I'm just a developer.