Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-02-25 Thread Philip Withnall
On Sun, 2018-12-23 at 17:21 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 16:48 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > > > On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > It has been a few months since we

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-21 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 15:15 +0100, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > > 3. I’d like to see continued movement towards disallowing direct > > pushes to git, and requiring all commits to go through MRs (and > > CI). > > Hi, >

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-15 Thread Will Thompson
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, at 10:04, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 10:58 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > It should still be easy to fork the project, push a branch to your > > namespace, > > and then submit a MR. Or did I misunderstand? > > Too many trips to the web browser,

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-15 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2019-01-15 at 10:58 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 15/01/2019 10:48, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of > > > spurious > > > issues, specific

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-15 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort via desktop-devel-list
On 15/01/2019 10:48, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: >> Hey, >> >> It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of spurious >> issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has been >> generally good. I would like to gather some

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-15 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > Hey, > > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of spurious > issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has been > generally good. I would like to gather some general feeling about it. > Things that really

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-14 Thread Carlos Soriano
Now that it has settled down, thanks all for the feedback! It's really useful for me (and I believe for everyone else) to have a general feeling and what things are in common as biggest struggles and positives. Cheers On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 at 16:22, Germán Poo-Caamaño wrote: > On Wed, 2019-01-02

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-02 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 15:15 +0100, Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > > 3. I’d like to see continued movement towards disallowing direct > > pushes to git, and requiring all commits to go through MRs (and > > CI). > > Hi, >

Re: GitLab postmortem

2019-01-02 Thread Milan Crha via desktop-devel-list
On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > 3. I’d like to see continued movement towards disallowing direct > pushes to git, and requiring all commits to go through MRs (and CI). Hi, I hope this won't go through without a good research and reasoning. Any such requirement

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-23 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 16:48 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > > > Hey, > > > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of > > > spurious issues, specific annoyances

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-22 Thread Guido Günther
Hi, On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 04:48:57PM +, Philip Withnall wrote: >7. The ability for a maintainer to push fixups to an old MR, or rerun >failed CI pipelines on it, so that we don’t have to clone MRs to resurrect >ones where the original author has wandered off; and people don’t

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-21 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I would say things have been fantastic from the engagement team perspective. I think the engagement team is more accessible now that we are using the same system as the rest of GNOME. We are able to project management ourselves and overall more efficient. I don't think we are using gitlab at a

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-21 Thread Allan Day
Hey Carlos, The GitLab transition has been really positive from a design perspective. I would definitely say that our work feels easier and more productive than it was. I think that GitLab is also helping us to maintain a healthy design team. Some highlights: - It's allowed us to migrate all

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-19 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2018-12-19 at 14:37 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > > Hey, > > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of > > spurious issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has > > been generally good. I would

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-19 Thread Philip Withnall
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano wrote: > Hey, > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of spurious > issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has been > generally good. I would like to gather some general feeling about it. > Things that really made

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread mcatanzaro
On the whole, I'm really pleased with GitLab. Especially really pleased with the ability to start discussions during reviews and mark comments as resolved. It's a bit of a shame we can't batch comments like on GitHub, but marking discussions as resolved is amazing and makes up for it. The

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Christian Hergert
On 12/11/18 5:22 AM, Carlos Soriano wrote: > > Please keep the mail chain one way from you towards the world, so we > don't get trapped on specifics, we can address stuff raised here > individually out of list. Personally, I'll ping you on IRC or so if I > can do something to help. We have issue

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Nicolas Dufresne
Le mardi 11 décembre 2018 à 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano a écrit : > Hey, > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of spurious issues, > specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has been generally good. I > would like to gather some general feeling about it. Things that

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Georges Basile Stavracas Neto via desktop-devel-list
Hey Carlos, thanks for bringing this topic to the table. I certainly have feedback to share! Wall of text, tl;dr: GitLab is great, but could be greater; increased number of contributions, but not contributors; better tools to manage issues, but lacks project and product management features;

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Germán Poo-Caamaño
On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:29 +0100, Alberto Fanjul Alonso via desktop- devel-list wrote: > It was a huge improvement. Now is really easy for many different > skilled > people to contribute. > > > I just miss a good global code search, (which I use all the time in > similar services to check real

Re: GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Alberto Fanjul Alonso via desktop-devel-list
It was a huge improvement. Now is really easy for many different skilled people to contribute. I just miss a good global code search, (which I use all the time in similar services to check real usages of gtk or vala for example) I miss to be able to include chunks of code with an URL or

GitLab postmortem

2018-12-11 Thread Carlos Soriano
Hey, It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of spurious issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has been generally good. I would like to gather some general feeling about it. Things that really made a constant impact to you and your work, both bad or good. Feel