Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 10/30/20 10:16, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:01:27PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
>> 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
> 
> A bot could do this.

I think a "bug traffic" mailing list (possibly but not necessarily
separate from the main qemu development list) is important.

> 
>> 2. The loss of the ability to update the issue tracker by replying to said
>> emails
> 
> This is too bad. It's something I liked about Launchpad.

To me personally: not too important. (I concede that this may have been
the one and only redeeming quality of Launchpad.)

> 
>> 3. Anyone listed in MAINTAINERS would be expected to have a gitlab account
>> in order to interact with the issue tracker.
> 
> Maintainers should start running pull requests through the GitLab CI
> anyway, so this is probably okay.

100% fine with me.

Thanks
Laszlo