On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 11:17 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-05-29 at 16:34 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > > The pull-based mirroring is a bit sad, as it would be nice to auto-update > > some forks, but it's not a killer feature. > > Exactly. Especially that our push-based mirroring is better, > and I think that's how we want to populate it. > So you want to keep gitolite then? > > > I think our new SSO solution > > could potentially be a fix for the auth subsystems, but more work there > > will be needed. > > I think SSO should be the primary login to our GitLab, especially for > our users. GitHub login is a must. > I'm fairly sure both gitlab and gitea support this requirement. > > > Another major issue is operating the software. I haven't found anyone to > > *run* gitlab; I'm not eager to do it. Today Gentoo is mostly distributed, > > bugs are in bugzilla, wiki is on mediawiki, code is on gitolite with N > > mirrors, email and lists are separate, etc. In a world where bugs, wiki, > > code, ci, containers, PRs, are all on gitlab and it breaks and we can't > fix > > it; it will be bad news for all of those things. If the bugzilla machine > > breaks we lose bugzilla; if gitlab breaks we lose the ability to edit the > > wiki, file bugs, commit, run CI, etc. > > > > But who says we want to migrate them all into GitLab? I thought our > primary goal was to replace today's GitHub use, i.e. provide > an alternative pipeline for pull/merge requests. > Oh I don't, but we then need to disable all of them and restrict their usage. -A > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > >
