Was Github ruled out because it's not free enough in spirit or are the Gnome folks just wanting to run things on-prem?
Gnome has moved to GitLab
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Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#12Here's the link to the repos, which was strangely not included in the blog post: https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups
The whole blog post was made to sound like GNOME moved to gitlab.com, so I guess not including the link was intentional.
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#13… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too. … though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.
It's a fundamental problem of open source projects hosting on GitHub. I don't think the the Fossil colocation model is necessarily right, but some open protocol is needed so that issues can be easily migrated between these services.
Is it really that hard to write a little script to copy the issues over? Github has an exceptional API.
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a fundamental problem of open source projects hosting on GitHub. I don't think the the Fossil colocation model is necessarily right, but some open protocol is needed so that issues can be easily migrated between these services.
Is it really that hard to write a little script to copy the issues over? Github has an exceptional API.
They moved from bugzilla to GitLab (not GitHub)
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#15… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too. … though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.
It's a fundamental problem of open source projects hosting on GitHub. I don't think the the Fossil colocation model is necessarily right, but some open protocol is needed so that issues can be easily migrated between these services.
This is gitlab not github
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#16Where was it before?
>Before migrating, GNOME used a broad range of tools to fulfil a number of specific purposes – from CGit for hosting to Bugzilla for bug tracking – but the number of tools made the onboarding experience for new contributors cumbersome and confusing. They started looking for a single tool to meet more of their needs to make this process easier and to improve their own workflows. https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Deve…
...did they just delete all the old bug reports?
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#17… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too. … though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.
It looks like at least some projects got bugs imported. Maybe this is still ongoing?
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#18Was Github ruled out because it's not free enough in spirit or are the Gnome folks just wanting to run things on-prem?
"GitHub is not Free Software, of course, which makes it unacceptable to many in the GNOME community."
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Before migrating, GNOME used a broad range of tools to fulfil a number of specific purposes – from CGit for hosting to Bugzilla for bug tracking – but the number of tools made the onboarding experience for new contributors cumbersome and confusing. They started looking for a single tool to meet more of their needs to make this process easier and to improve their own workflows. https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/Deve…
...did they just delete all the old bug reports?
I see about 14k issues: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues
Re: Gnome has moved to GitLab
#20… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too. … though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.
Are your bazillion bugs not in the ~14k issues that are on their gnome project page?