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["Steven A. Falco" <stevenfalco@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/9/19 12:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> The lead development team has been discussing migrating the KiCad
> project to GitLab[1].

For packagers, I'm curious as to how creating an archive from a tag would work.  Currently, to grab the source from launchpad, we use a URL like:

https://launchpad.net/kicad/5.0/%{version}/+download/kicad-%{version}.tar.xz

where %{version} is a Fedora macro that expands to the desired version.  This apparently works because Wayne explicitly uploads the tarball to launchpad.

For github, we use:

https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc/archive/%{version}.tar.gz

This works because github has an API that creates the tarball on-demand.

I found some references regarding how this works in GitLab.  For example, please see Issue 38830:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/38830

According to that issue, you can request a tarball from GitLab, similarly to what you would do with GitHub.  However, when you request a tarball of a tag, the SHA will be part of the filename.  Worse, the top level directory will also contain the SHA.

This will complicate packaging, because we'll need to know the expected SHAs for each of the 7 repos, and rename the directories as the tarballs are unpacked.  Or I suppose we could use wildcards to achieve the same thing.  It is certainly doable, but it is a bit ugly.

	Steve

> Given the issues with Launchpad, I think this is
> a good move.  I've applied for an open source GitLab license.  Assuming
> we get accepted, I would like to start this process after the 5.1.5
> release.  Here is a short list of action items that need to be done for
> the source repo transition:
> 
> * Freeze the Launchpad source repo.
> * Push the frozen repo to GitLab.
> * Disable the Launcpad bug tracker.
> * Add a note and link to the Launcpad project page that the project is
> now hosted on GitLab.
> * Create blog announcement once the transition is complete.
> 
> There are a few unknowns:
> 
> Would it be possible to migrate open bug reports to GitLab?  I suspect
> we could come up with a script like we did when we migrated from
> SourceForge.
> 
> What to do about the mailing list?  GitLab doesn't support mailing lists
> yet so I'm thinking we leave the mailing list on Launchpad for the short
> term.  We can always migrate the mailing list at a later date or use
> some other communication tool such as discourse.
> 
> Further down the road, I would like to see all of the KiCad source repos
> including the library, documentation, website, and translation repos
> migrated to GitLab as well.  It would make my life a lot easier from a
> project management perspective if they were all in the same place.  I
> expect there to be some resistance to using a source code version tool
> but I'm hoping folks will see this as a beneficial move.  I'm not
> terribly familiar with GitLab but I suspect it's not that much different
> than GitHub as a hosting platform so I don't expect there to be a very
> steep learning curve.  If you have any concerns, now is the time to
> speak up or forever hold your peace.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> [1]: https://gitlab.com/
> 
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