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.

>  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.

> 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.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny