Re: GitLab postmortem

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

I would say things have been fantastic from the engagement team
perspective.  I think the engagement team is more accessible now that
we are using the same system as the rest of GNOME.  We are able to
project management ourselves and overall more efficient.

I don't think we are using gitlab at a level that we can offer
suggestions on improvement as we are primarily just using the issues
feature.

Anyone else on the engagement team should chime in if my views aren't a
complete representation of the engagement team. :)

sri

On Fri, 2018-12-21 at 13:07 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> Hey Carlos,
>
> The GitLab transition has been really positive from a design
> perspective. I would definitely say that our work feels easier and
> more productive than it was. I think that GitLab is also helping us
> to
> maintain a healthy design team.
>
> Some highlights:
>
>  - It's allowed us to migrate all our repos from GitHub back to GNOME
> infrastructure, where they belong.
>  - Just having formatting and screenshots in issues makes a huge
> difference, and make it much easier to have conversations about
> design. We've actually started using issue tracking against our
> mockup
> repositories, which makes a lot of sense and is a good way to have
> exploratory design discussions before engaging developers.
>  - Another thing I've found is that we've become more willing to
> create repos, which is really useful for experimentation.
>  - Having a team space with all our repos is fantastic from a
> team/community perspective.
>  - Being able to view diffs between image commits is great (although
> this not new to us, because we were using GitHub before).
>
> Areas for improvement - the ability to have discussions in relation
> to
> mockups is limited - you can only comment on a single commit, not on
> an image file or a set of image files. It's awkward referring to
> mockups from issues (do you embed the mockup in the issue, link to
> the
> latest commit, or link to the file?) Ideally I'd want to mention the
> mockup file and have GitLab take care of the rest - show a preview,
> but also indicate if the image has changed since the comment was
> posted.
>
> Allan
>
> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 13:23, Carlos Soriano <csoriano gnome org>
> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > It has been a few months since we moved to GitLab. Apart of
> > spurious issues, specific annoyances and frustrations, seems it has
> > been generally good. I would like to gather some general feeling
> > about it. Things that really made a constant impact to you and your
> > work, both bad or good. Feel free to provide feedback about the
> > transition or the administration of GitLab instance too. Free form.
> >
> > Please keep the mail chain one way from you towards the world, so
> > we don't get trapped on specifics, we can address stuff raised here
> > individually out of list. Personally, I'll ping you on IRC or so if
> > I can do something to help.
> >
> > Of course, feel free to msg me directly on IRC/email too.
> >
> > Thanks all!
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