Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Mathieu Bridon <bochecha daitauha fr>]

On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 15:13 +0300, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> No strong opinion here about GitLab, just a comment below...
>
> On Tue, 23 May 2017 11:21:25 +0200, Felipe Borges <felipe10borges@gma
> il.com> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > Cons:
> > - not a big fan of the merge-request workflow
> > - we will have a bunch of useless forks across the users' accounts
>
> I have seen this concern pop several times in this thread. Does
> GitLab strictly require that a merge request is always started from a
> fork?

No, this works exactly like in Github.

> At least with GitHub and Gogs [1] it's possible to create merge
> requests from a branch *in the same repository* (I use branches named
> “<username>/<feature>” now and then). If everybody who is a
> maintainer is going to have push access in the GNOME GitLab instance,
> they can just push their branch to repository and create the merge
> request from there — without needing to fork the repository into
> their user space.

Exactly.

Only new contributors who don't have the permissions yet would need to
create their own forks.


-- 
Mathieu