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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Gitlab Evaluation & Migration
From:       Eike Hein <hein () kde ! org>
Date:       2019-02-26 9:02:08
Message-ID: b6aa4e7a-95d6-9eef-4709-f936dd01c81a () kde ! org
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On 2/26/19 4:17 AM, Nate Graham wrote:
> Like you, I have some reservations about Gitlab. I'm not thrilled about losing \
> approve/request changes statuses (that's in the EE edition only right now).

Me too. It's one of the things we're asking to be moved to the CE -- and 
so is Gnome. GitLab knows we're talking to each other and doubling down 
on this need.


 > the kdesrc-build experience

How would GitLab impact the kdesrc-build experience?


 > Landing patches is time-consuming and error-prone.

Yes. As a maintainer of things I often land patches by new contributors 
without dev access, and it's super annoying and painful. `arc patch`, 
remember to correct author info, merge around, ...


 > Phab's system that attempts (and fails) to abstract away Git itself

I think Phab was originally written for SVN - it shows I guess.


Cheers,
Eike


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