On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:47:55PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Hi all, > > now that Gitlab is the primary CI infrastructure for QEMU, and that all > QEMU git repositories (including mirrors) are available on Gitlab, I > would like to propose that committers use Gitlab when merging commits to > QEMU repositories. > > There are four reasons for this: > > - this would be a step towards ensuring that all commits go through the > CI process, and it would also provide a way to run the deployment of the > web site via .gitlab-ci.yml. > > - right now Gitlab pulls from upstream repos and qemu.org pulls from > gitlab, but this is not true for the qemu, qemu-web and openbios > repositories where Gitlab pulls from qemu.org and qemu.org is the main > repository. With this switch, all the main repositories would be on > Gitlab and then mirrored to both qemu.org and GitHub. Having a > homogeneous configuration makes it easier to document what's going on. > > - it would limit the number of people with access to qemu.org, since > committers would no longer need an account on the machine. > > - by treating gitlab as authoritative, we could include it in the > .gitmodules file and remove load on the qemu.org server > > Nothing would change for developers, who would still have access to all > three sets of repositories (git.qemu.org, gitlab.com and github.com). > Committers however would need to have an account on the > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project organization with access to the > repositories they care about. They would also lose write access to > /srv/git on qemu.org. > > Of course this is just starting a discussion, so I'm not even proposing > a date for the switch.
Thanks, this sounds good. It will simplify qemu.org administration. Stefan
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