Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[John Snow]

On 10/29/20 12:49 PM, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:41 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:01:27 -0400
> > John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If you're in the CC list, it's because you are listed in MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > <cleared the cc: list except for qemu-devel :)>
> >
> > > Paolo's QEMU keynote this morning mentioned the possible use of the
> > > Gitlab issue tracker instead of using Launchpad.
> > >
> > > I'm quite fond of the gitlab issue tracker, I think it works quite well
> > > and it has pretty good and uncomplicated API access to it in order to
> > > customize your workflow if you'd really like to.
> > >
> > > In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a
> > > way to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email
> > > list. A move to gitlab would likely mean, then:
> > >
> > > 1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list
> > > 2. The loss of the ability to update the issue tracker by replying to
> > > said emails
> > > 3. Anyone listed in MAINTAINERS would be expected to have a gitlab
> > > account in order to interact with the issue tracker.
> >
> > The gitlab issue tracker is almost certainly is an improvement over
> > launchpad (and I do have a gitlab account); but not being able to
> > interact via email is at least annoying. I expect that not only
> > maintainers will want to interact with bug reports?
> >
> > > However, once you have a gitlab account, you DO gain the ability to
> > > receive emails for issues; possibly only those tagged with labels that
> > > you cared about -- giving a nice filtering mechanism to receive only
> > > bugs you care about.
> > >
> > > Gitlab also does support individual accounts updating issues using a
> > > generated personalized email address, so if the email workflow is
> > > crucial to you, it is still available.
> >
> > You mean that I can update via email, provided it's an address
> > associated with my account?
> >
> > > I'm for it, or at least for beginning a pilot program where we
> > > experiment with the idea for interested parties. I wanted to send up a
> > > trial balloon to see how we were feeling about this.
>
> I'm not sure if you want Acks, but it sounds good to me.
>
> Alistair

Mostly I was looking for any hard objections over the idea of issues not 
necessarily being sent to the list anymore, if there were any.

I want to hear from Thomas Huth too, but maybe we can work out a pilot 
migration and give it a test-run and find more concrete objections that way.

--js