From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gitlab Migration Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:32:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83v93srwsp.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="24027"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Fleischer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 18:33:50 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mJIK6-0005zL-Kz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:33:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44810 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJIK5-0005cq-8g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJIJX-0004xy-Q4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJIJX-0004NJ-1k; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:33:15 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:1469 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mJIJU-00048d-0U; Thu, 26 Aug 2021 12:33:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Fleischer on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:20:36 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:273047 Archived-At: > From: Daniel Fleischer > Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:20:36 +0300 > > Possible issue: > > 1 Being able to use Emacs for all these needs. One way is being able to > interact with the VC system using emails, i.e. issues, features, > discussions should have a nice and efficient email interface in > addition to using a website. Another approach is using the wonderful > Magit and Forge packages. Forge currently is lacking the discussions > feature but has a very good git + pull-requests + org-mode > integration abilities. > 2 Changing processes, how people operate. Whether it's the technical > aspect of a pull-request approval vs. patch submission to the more > conceptual change of dealing with "issues" representing bugs, ideas, > feature requests or general discussions instead of mailing lists. > These changes shouldn't be too disruptive. However I do believe a > small price has to be paid in order to go from one local minima of > effort in a given practice to another, hopefully better local minima. > > Does this describe well the current situation? > What areas need attention in order to facilitate the change? At the time, someone filed an issue with GitLab with a description of the problems we discovered. I'm quite sure the issue ID was posted here. I suggest to find that issue and read it (unless you already did), because AFAIR there were several aspects to it, certainly more than just 2 you mention. Thanks.