On Sat, 2025-11-01 at 15:49 +0200, Arthur Zamarin wrote: > 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.
Yea I didn't know it was supposed to be used by non-devs at all > > 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 :)
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