Re: Proposal to deploy GitLab on gnome.org

[Adrian Perez de Castro <aperez igalia com>]

On Tue, 23 May 2017 14:21:02 +0200, Felipe Borges <feborges redhat com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, that's an interesting point. Somehow I missed that while skimming through
the long thread O:-)

Br.

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 💻 Adrián

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