On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > With the release of Mailman 3.0, it's time to take a look at our project > management, with an eye toward making it easier for core developers, easier > for non-core contributors, and providing improved quality, all while > staying > true to the GNU project's principles. > > There's a lot to like about Bazaar, and it's served us well over the years, > but it's also pretty clear that this round of version control systems has > been > won by git. We have converted the Core's vcs to git, and will soon convert > Postorius and mailman.client. HyperKitty is already managed under git. > > There's a lot to like about Launchpad. It's free software, and it has some > nice features, including one of my favorites: bug tasks, which allow us to > report a bug affecting more than one project or series, and track each > task as > it's resolved. Launchpad has even announced git support: > > http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta > > There are also reasons why we might want to move off of Launchpad. Most > compelling is that Launchpad is difficult or impossible to use for code > hosting by our Indian colleagues. >
Reason being bzr is too slow, right? Or, are there more reasons to it? > We have therefore decided to move to Gitlab. > > The Core is now hosted here: https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman > > Postorius and mailman.client will follow after Florian has had some time to > work through the existing Launchpad merge proposals. HyperKitty may move > at > some point soon. > > We currently have no plans to move any hosting of Mailman 2.1. For now, > its > code will continue to live in Bazaar on Launchpad, its bugs will continue > to > be managed on Launchpad, as will merge proposals. > > Q: What about the existing lp:mailman Bazaar branch? > A: Let's leave it there for now, effectively keeping it around read-only. > > Q: What about existing LP bugs for Mailman 3? > A: Abhilash is working on transferring them to Gitlab. It won't be a > perfect > conversions since we can't match users on the two systems, but if/when > we > do transfer them, we'll keep a link to the LP bug report in the Gitlab > issue. We will only be moving the bugs tagged 'mailman3' on LP. > > If you own a Mailman 3 bug on Launchpad, feel free to close it there and > open a new one on Gitlab. > > In the meantime, or if the transfer doesn't work well enough, we'll just > close bugs on LP as we fix them. Please report all new bugs on Gitlab. > > Q: What about existing LP merge proposals? > A: These are much tougher to transfer. If you have an open merge proposal > on > LP, feel free to update it to the latest git head and submit a new merge > request on Gitlab. If you do, please close your mp on LP. > > In the meantime, I'll work my way through the existing LP merge > proposals, > applying diffs by hand if necessary. > > Q: What about CI? > A: This is definitely one of the exciting features of Gitlab we're eager to > start using. Our plans are to requisition a VM from python.org and > set up > CI on it. I'd like for us to never commit directly to the official > project > branches. > > Q: Why Gitlab and not Github or Bitbucket? > A: Gitlab has an edition that is free software. If for some reason we > have to > leave gitlab.com, we could potentially stand up our own Gitlab and have > an easier time transferring our projects to it. Plus we have to be a > *little* different don't we? :) > > Cheers, > -Barry > > _______________________________________________ > Mailman-Developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers > Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 > Searchable Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/syst3m.w0rm%40gmail.com > > Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 > -- Regards, Aamir _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
