Re: GitLab, moving non-GNOME projects currently hosted on git.gnome.org

[Ben <iofelben gmail com>]

On February 15, 2018 11:23:14 AM EST, "Sébastien Wilmet" <swilmet gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to move all the projects I maintain to gitlab.gnome.org.
> Currently those projects are hosted on git.gnome.org, but not all of
> them are officially part of GNOME.
>
> When looking at:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups
> the best group that fits is "Incubator", but I'll probably not setup CI
> directly. "Incubator" is also a strange name for a 9-years old stable
> project.
>
> I could put those projects on my personal namespace:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/swilmet/<project>
> but I don't like that because in the future there can be other
> maintainers, I don't want to link the project with me.
>
> On git.gnome.org all the projects were located in a neutral location:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/<project>
> There were no groups. It was just a flat list, the groups were defined
> in the *.doap files.
>
> Now on GitLab with the groups, each time that a project is moved from
> one group to another, the URLs change, and everybody needs to adapt the
> git remote in their local clone.

If a project is moved to a different user or group, do the old URLs do not redirect automatically? Github 
does this 

> Isn't there a better solution? What do you recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> Sébastien
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