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[Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi devs,
This is an announcement (1) and call for opinions (2).

(1)  We will be migrating the integration framework to GitLab.com soon. 
That is: the config of buildbot, doc generation, and packaging will be 
using gitlab and will be hosted on gitlab.com [1], while hardware 
ressources will be provided locally by 3SR and/or Gricad's Gitlab [2].
It should increase flexibility and decrease maintainance issues.
Rémi made most of the work already (thank you!). Curious about it? You 
can check [3].
The switch could happen in a couple months.

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(2)
GitLab.com could also host the master branch in replacement of 
GitHub.com. It is not required though, and there is no problem to keep 
it on GitHub (like we kept bug tracking on launchpad after moving master 
to github), or not. This is open question to me. Migrating a branch is 
easy to do and easy to revert, so there is no technical constraint on 
us. It just needs to decide if we want to keep github or adopt gitlab 
for the source code (or both...).

If source code was migrated, same question for bug tracking and answers?

Whatever is decided for the above, the migration is also a good 
opportunity to think about the branch management model. Are we happy 
with it?
Currently we have a centralized usage of a distributed CVS. Most 
contributors push to master directly  with strictly no pre-assessement 
of the contributions. Another possible (and classical) model would be to 
only accept merge requests from other branches. Which can have 
advantages, namely: easier to review since the the requests will usually 
collect a larger number of commits (all from a single user typically, 
hence self consistent), and more secured since it favors pre-assessment.

Opinions?

Cheers

Bruno

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/product/
[2] https://gricad-gitlab.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/
[3] https://gitlab.com/remche/trunk

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ENSE³ - Grenoble INP
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