[Hamara-devel] Fwd: [Mailman-Developers] Moving to git and gitlab

[shirish]

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Subject: [Mailman-Developers] Moving to git and gitlab
Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 20:16:42 -0400
From: Barry Warsaw <barry at list.org>
Organization: Damn Crazy Followers of the Horn
To: mailman-developers at python.org

With the release of Mailman 3.0, it's time to take a look at our project
management, with an eye toward making it easier for core developers, 
easier for non-core contributors, and providing improved quality, all 
while staying true to the GNU project's principles.

There's a lot to like about Bazaar, and it's served us well over the 
years, but it's also pretty clear that this round of version control 
systems has been won by git.  We have converted the Core's vcs to git, 
and will soon convert Postorius and mailman.client. HyperKitty is 
already managed under git.

There's a lot to like about Launchpad.  It's free software, and it has 
some nice features, including one of my favourites: bug tasks, which 
allow us to report a bug affecting more than one project or series, and 
track each task as it's resolved.  Launchpad has even announced git support:

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta

There are also reasons why we might want to move off of Launchpad.  Most
compelling is that Launchpad is difficult or impossible to use for code
hosting by our Indian colleagues.

We have therefore decided to move to Gitlab.

The Core is now hosted here: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman

Postorius and mailman.client will follow after Florian has had some time 
to work through the existing Launchpad merge proposals.  HyperKitty may 
move at some point soon.

We currently have no plans to move any hosting of Mailman 2.1.  For now, 
its code will continue to live in Bazaar on Launchpad, its bugs will 
continue to be managed on Launchpad, as will merge proposals.

Q: What about the existing lp:mailman Bazaar branch?
A: Let's leave it there for now, effectively keeping it around read-only.

Q: What about existing LP bugs for Mailman 3?
A: Abhilash is working on transferring them to Gitlab.  It won't be a 
perfect conversions since we can't match users on the two systems, but 
if/when we do transfer them, we'll keep a link to the LP bug report in 
the Gitlab issue.  We will only be moving the bugs tagged 'mailman3' on LP.

    If you own a Mailman 3 bug on Launchpad, feel free to close it there 
and open a new one on Gitlab.

    In the meantime, or if the transfer doesn't work well enough, we'll 
just close bugs on LP as we fix them.  Please report all new bugs on Gitlab.

Q: What about existing LP merge proposals?
A: These are much tougher to transfer.  If you have an open merge 
proposal on LP, feel free to update it to the latest git head and submit 
a new merge request on Gitlab.  If you do, please close your mp on LP.

    In the meantime, I'll work my way through the existing LP merge 
proposals, applying diffs by hand if necessary.

Q: What about CI?
A: This is definitely one of the exciting features of Gitlab we're eager 
to start using. Our plans are to requisition a VM from python.org and 
set up CI on it.  I'd like for us to never commit directly to the 
official project branches.

Q: Why Gitlab and not Github or Bitbucket?
A: Gitlab has an edition that is free software.  If for some reason we 
have to leave gitlab.com, we could potentially stand up our own Gitlab 
and have an easier time transferring our projects to it.  Plus we have 
to be a *little* different don't we? :)

Cheers,
-Barry



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