Infrastructure Upgrades/Changes: Git(ea)

[Alex]

Good work! I think this change could bring some more developers to xfce.
Allowing pull-requests makes participation much more simple.

... looking forward to possibly migrate bz --> gittea as well some day
.. hate it that I cannot fix my own typos in comments ;)

Cheers,
Alex

On 08.10.2017 00:36, Simon Steinbeiss wrote:
> PS: Oh, and here's the link to the wiki page summarizing some of our
> thoughts: https://wiki.xfce.org/infra/nextgen
> and the current POC / staging instance that I forgot in my previous
> email: https://gitea.xfce.alteroot.org/xfce
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 12:21 AM Simon Steinbeiss <simon at xfce.org
> <mailto:simon at xfce.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     there have been discussions around our current infrastructure - be
>     it hardware or software - and following Gnome's discussions around
>     moving from cgit/gitolite+bugzilla to something that feels a
>     little less dated and provides more integrations (they are ogling
>     at Gitlab) we have also had several discussions of our own.
>
>     We have started writing up requirements for the new infrastructure
>     (again, both hardware and software) and have started looking into
>     candidates more concretely.
>     For the software one hard requirement is self-hosting, a few more
>     are features we would like to either get or not lose over the
>     status quo. Of the candidates we took into closer consideration
>     (Gitlab and Gitea) we have been leaning towards Gitea. In short,
>     Gitea is a very Github-like (some say it's a clone), lightweight
>     piece of software that provides a Git server (with collaboration
>     features like pull-requests), a very simple issue tracker (like
>     the one of Github) and a very simple internal wiki. The latter two
>     components can either be disabled or redirected at external services.
>
>     In order not to get stuck in endless discussions (which could be
>     dragged out by the fact that people have lives and can't always
>     participate in the discussions) I would like to propose that we
>     try to move ahead with a switch to Gitea.
>     I know that feels a little dramatic and I'm hoping to also spark
>     some discussion here, but it's not as brutal as it may sound.
>
>     The current proposal for phase 1 would be the following:
>     1) Replace cgit/gitolite with Gitea (for browsing and
>     administering Git repos)
>     2) Keep Bugzilla and Dokuwiki for their purposes (you can see the
>     integration in the instance Skunnyk set up)
>
>     The migration and setup of the Xfce repositories can be automated
>     quite nicely (Skunnyk has already done that) so that part is not a
>     real blocker.
>     What we have to figure out to some extent is
>      * how to manage permissions (there are organisations, teams and
>     per repository permissions as different layers for which we will
>     need a concept)
>      * how to best migrate/set up the hooks (both for the Github
>     mirror and the bugzilla comments)
>      * to what extent to allow everyone to register and create forks
>     (what private repos are in cgit atm) in order to submit pull requests
>
>     For the future Gitea still provides the following points (imo):
>      * issue tracking (migrating away from Bugzilla)
>      * release management (potentially replacing archive.xfce.org
>     <http://archive.xfce.org> by uploading signed tarballs to Gitea)
>      * continuous integration integration (yeah, double the integration!)
>      * considering whether we ever want to use the internal wiki for
>     anything
>
>     So far we haven't really found anything where Gitea lacks over
>     cgit/gitolite feature-wise. (Even the hyperlinks on Bugzilla
>     issues work.) However this does not mean that we will potentially
>     find any drawbacks of this situation. The good news is that
>     switching back is not very painful, as far as we can tell. As only
>     Git management moves to Gitea that's the only part that would have
>     to be switched back.
>
>     Finally I would argue that it would be beneficial to try this out
>     for real (instead of toying with a staging instance over a longer
>     period of time) because we already have limited resources, so
>     toying with stuff is usually something people don't have too much
>     time for anyhow. While I can easily push to both cgit and Gitea,
>     this doesn't mean I'll be familiar with the features or way of
>     working of either (as I'm in both cases only using the Git
>     command-line locally as my main interaction).
>
>     So anyway, that's the proposal in full. I know it was/is a lot,
>     but thanks for reading and even more so for commenting and a
>     healthy discussion.
>
>     Cheers
>     Simon
>
>
>
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