Hello everyone As some of you know, infra team experimented with a gitlab instance running on our infra. This experiment was useful, it taught us many things, on the cost of managing our own instance, running self hosted runners for CI, etc.
The original idea was to make it simpler for people to send patches to us, not using the github ecosystem. But with the huge bot spam registering, we understood we need a lot of resources to manage users correctly, resources we didn't have, which forced us to enable only Gentoo devs and using github for registration - subpar. This resulted in a very small amount of people using gitlab. On the self hosted runner, we have used the gitlab-runner infra on our machines, which worked quite well. So for any future forge, we can consider to use their pipelines, but with our runners. (I mean it as an idea, not requirement). All in all, gitlab.g.o isn't useful today. I think we can think on shutting it down, and migrating to our regular home (gitweb, github, maybe codeberg). For soko and pkgcore stack (projects I manage), I've already stopped the mirroring to gitlab, and we can consider it for the other "shared" projects like portage or ::gentoo. Other users of gitlab.g.o, please consider to also migrate your repos. When done, please delete the repo in gitlab (so infra can know you are "done"). We don't have any timeline or exact date now for shutting it down, but please help us by migrating yourself for now :) -- Arthur Zamarin [email protected] Gentoo Linux developer (Council, Python, pkgcore stack, QA, Arch Teams)
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