Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Felipe Borges <feborges redhat com>]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Adrian Perez de Castro
<aperez igalia com> 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 gmail 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?
>
> 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.

Sure, but this creates a distinction between maintainers and other
contributors, as I think Bastien mentioned before.

> Cheers,
>
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>  💻 Adrián “2¢” Pérez
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