On Tue, May 26, 2020, 23:08 Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 20:24 -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > > The TL;DR is that a crack team of infra-folks[0] have been putting > together > > demos of CI services and things like gitlab / gitea / gerrit and so on. > > > > Some of these come in combined (e.g. gitlab offers repo hosting, code > > review / pull reqs, CI services, and deploy services.) Some of these are > > piecemeal (e.g. gerrit has code review, zuul has CI) and gitea offers > > repo-hosting but CI is separate (e.g. drone.) > > > > On the infra-side, I think we are pretty happy with repo-hosting > (gitolite) > > and repo-serving (gitweb). We are missing a CI piece and a pull-request > > piece. Most of the users using PRs use either a gitlab or github mirror. > > > > I think the value of CI is pretty obvious to me (and I see tons of use > > cases in Infra.) We could easily build CI into our current repository > > solution (e.g. gitolite.) However gitolite doesn't really support PRs in > a > > uniform way and so CI is mostly for submitted code; similar to the > existing > > ::gentoo repo CI offered by mgorny. > > > > If we build a code review solution (like gitea / gerrit) would people use > > it? Would you use it if you couldn't merge (because the code review > > solution can't gpg sign your commits or merges) so a tool like the > existing > > pram tool would be needed to merge? > > > > Does GitLab count? Gerrit is just PITA. I think we had some concerns > about Gitea, so I'd like to test it before deciding. GitLab OTOH works > just fine for a lot of projects, and seems the next best thing after > GitHub Gitlab does count (we deployed and tested an onprem version.) I think there are some major issues with it though. - Licensing. Gitlab-CE is available, gitlab-EE is not OSS nor OSI approved and many of the features we need are EE only and are not available in CE. - Complex: Gitlab is a giant piece of software with maybe 8-12 components (unicorn, postgres, redis, memcache, sidekiq, puma, workhouse, gitaly, grafana, sshd,nginx, prometheus ..the list goes on) - I think gitlab ships with more features than we will use (CD, docker registry, issues / bugs, wiki, analytics, snippets, milestones, repo hosting, repo browsing, ... Again the list goes on.) I don't play to migrate away from bugs.gentoo.org nor wiki.gentoo.org, nor gitolite. I think if we did; then gitlab would be a more compelling option because it is a one-stop-shop solution for those use cases. My understanding of gitea is that it works great for not-::gentoo, but ::gentoo and gitea don't work well and it would require work upstream to fix; other large repos seemed to work OK in gitea (based on our test deployment and conversations with gitea upstream.) Gerrit is widely used for large projects and I'm not worried for ::gentoo and we have deployed gerrit and it seems to work fine. Gerrit doesn't have CI (we would need to deploy something) and it uses gitweb for repository browsing (which we use today.) -A > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > >
