Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Michael Catanzaro <mike catanzaro gmail com>]

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Tobias Mueller <muelli cryptobitch de> 
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I welcome the proposal to modernise our development infrastructure.
>
> On Di, 2017-05-16 at 10:38 -0400, Carlos Soriano via 
> desktop-devel-list
> wrote:
> >  You can take a look at their "changelogs" between releases (one 
> > each month).
> This seems to be the most risky part about moving to GitLab: Having to
> maintain it.  Maintaining Bugzilla is not an easy task, but they don't
> release every month.  Also, we have learnt (more or less...) how to
> block bots DoSing or spamming us.

I think the main problem with maintaining Bugzilla is the fairly large 
number of downstream changes we have that makes upgrades difficult, 
right? We should consider not making downstream changes to our GitLab 
instance to prevent this from becoming a problem.

Michael