On Friday, September 4, 2020 8:27:55 AM MST Aoife Moloney wrote: > Good Morning folks, > > As you likely remember, a little while ago now, was announced the decision > to move dist-git to a gitlab instance. This decision was the results of > different factors which included a wish for Red Hat to have a consistent > tooling and experience across the different distribution it works on or > with, meaning: RHEL, CentOS-Stream, CentOS Linux and Fedora. > > Since then, a number of technical requirements needed to use gitlab in > Fedora, were gathered and a ticket was opened at gitlab to track them [1] > but up until now the progress on the Fedora side has been fairly slow. This > is mostly due to the feedback from Fedora that followed this decision, > leading to a focus on the first two distributions in the list above. > > However, in order to progress the evaluation of gitlab, we have organized > an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) session with the gitlab folks on Thursday > September 10th 2020, at 13:30 UTC on #fedora-meeting-1 on irc.freenode.net. > The idea is to have an open floor for anyone in the community to discuss > with GitLab the technical merits that GitLab has, as well as the > requirements we, the Fedora community, have. > > In order for this session to be productive, we believe that it may be wise > to start gathering questions to GitLab early on, so they can also look > into them and prepare their answers (I'm sure we all prefer to have actual > answers rather than: "hm, I don't know, let me check and I'll get back to > you on this"). Of course, we will still be able to ask question at the last > minute or even during the session. > Gathering them as early as possible is just a way for GitLab to see what > interests us, who may be the right persons to attend this session and > overall to make this hour as productive as possible. > > > So there are two ways for you to submit your questions to the GitLab folks > on a potential deployment of GitLab as a front-end to our dist-git (ie: > src.fedoraproject.org): > > - A public hackmd document: > https://hackmd.io/RW8HahOeR7OJPON1dwuo3w# > Underneath each questions you will also be able to vote (simply add a ``+1`` > to the ``Votes:`` line), the most popular questions will be asked first. > Since this document is public, please be mindful of what previous people > entered. > > - A discussion on forum.gitlab.com at: > https://forum.gitlab.com/t/fedora-migration-to-gitlab-ask-me-anything-ama-th > ursday-september-10-2020/41971 > The questions that we will not have time for, or cant be answered during > the session, will be answered afterward. The AMA minutes will be sent in > the CPE weekly mail, the hackmd will be updated and and summary published > on the community > blog. > > > Looking forward to the discussion, > > Aoife > > > [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217350 That's an interesting choice. Isn't it a bit of a waste to put all of the resources into Pagure for so long, only to jump over to GitLab? -- John M. Harris, Jr. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
