Re: GitLab update: Moving to the next step

[Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>]

On 12/08/2017 10:50 AM, philip chimento gmail com wrote:
> I admire Carlos' restraint here but I'm going to say it more bluntly:
> in my opinion, it is unfair to expect that any individual person's
> opinion on their preferred must-haves should be able to block the
> migration from moving forward. This is part of the monumental job
> Carlos has been doing: gathering everyone's requirements, evaluating
> them, checking the feasibility with GitLab, and deciding which ones
> are blockers for GNOME _as a whole_ before we move the migration
> forward. By demanding that your personal blockers take precedence, you
> are undermining Carlos' hard work and the balancing act he has to
> perform to get this to happen at all. It's impossible for him to make
> everyone happy and I think he's done a fine job of representing
> different perspectives, I dare say even ones that he doesn't agree
> with. We need to trust that he is including all the factors and making
> the right decision.

I was providing my opinions on which issues should be blockers for 
GNOME. I'm not issuing demands here... Carlos is running this show.

That said, if GitLab doesn't at least have real support for duplicate 
issues (its #1 problem IMO), then I will be quite displeased to lose 
Bugzilla. I still think the compromise here is to allow modules to turn 
off GitLab's issue tracker. Setting aside the rest of GitLab's features, 
surely we can agree its issue tracker is clearly inferior to what we 
have right now.

Michael