Re: GitLab postmortem

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 14:22 +0100, Carlos Soriano 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.

My main problem is/was that contributing by pushing a branch is super-
easy, but you can't contribute by pushing a branch if you're not
allowed to push a branch. So this isn't a problem when you're in
@GNOME, and the project is as well, but I've not bothered pushing small
fixes to non-GNOME group modules.

Per-commit reviews are absolutely head-against-the-desk because the UI
is really bad, and the diff tool is sluggish. I miss splinter if I have
more than one commit to review.

All-in-all, it's still a better, and known, workflow for people who
didn't want to, or couldn't learn about git-bz, and having a CI
available is awesome. Don't even need to spend a second reviewing
patches that don't build ;)

Good job :)