Re: Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 9:41 AM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:01:27 -0400
> John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > If you're in the CC list, it's because you are listed in MAINTAINERS.
>
> <cleared the cc: list except for qemu-devel :)>
>
> >
> > Paolo's QEMU keynote this morning mentioned the possible use of the
> > Gitlab issue tracker instead of using Launchpad.
> >
> > I'm quite fond of the gitlab issue tracker, I think it works quite well
> > and it has pretty good and uncomplicated API access to it in order to
> > customize your workflow if you'd really like to.
> >
> > In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a
> > way to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email
> > list. A move to gitlab would likely mean, then:
> >
> > 1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list
> > 2. The loss of the ability to update the issue tracker by replying to
> > said emails
> > 3. Anyone listed in MAINTAINERS would be expected to have a gitlab
> > account in order to interact with the issue tracker.
>
> The gitlab issue tracker is almost certainly is an improvement over
> launchpad (and I do have a gitlab account); but not being able to
> interact via email is at least annoying. I expect that not only
> maintainers will want to interact with bug reports?
>
> >
> > However, once you have a gitlab account, you DO gain the ability to
> > receive emails for issues; possibly only those tagged with labels that
> > you cared about -- giving a nice filtering mechanism to receive only
> > bugs you care about.
> >
> > Gitlab also does support individual accounts updating issues using a
> > generated personalized email address, so if the email workflow is
> > crucial to you, it is still available.
>
> You mean that I can update via email, provided it's an address
> associated with my account?
>
> >
> > I'm for it, or at least for beginning a pilot program where we
> > experiment with the idea for interested parties. I wanted to send up a
> > trial balloon to see how we were feeling about this.

I'm not sure if you want Acks, but it sounds good to me.

Alistair

> >
> > --js
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