On 10/9/19 1:06 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote: > Hi, this is welcome news. > > I would suggest we do the library transfer as soon as the new > file format is somewhat stable as we will need to make a hard > cut for transfering the symbol libs to the new file format > anyway. > (We would avoid needing to do doulbe work this way.) > > Would then of course mean that the v5 development will > stay at github and only v6 will be found at gitlab. > (The v5 development will be halted as soon as we start with > v6 as we simply do not have the resources to handle two > releases. And i assume the move will take us quite a while > so we need to start early with it anyways.)
This is a good idea that I hadn't considered. > > On 09/10/2019 18:36, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> The lead development team has been discussing migrating the KiCad >> project to GitLab[1]. 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/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
