Hi everyone,
It has been a while since we started evaluating if we want to find alternatives to Trac.
You might remember we sent a survey out to collect more info, and based on the answers we believe we should figure out a better solution.
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000975.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2017-March/000978.html
In Amsterdam meeting we hosted a discussion on the results of our survey and up to this moment we have been evaluating gitlab as a possible alternative to Trac or eventually as a possible code review tool we can use.
But this has been a little 'loose' and we wanted to organize things better in order to be able to make decisions and move forward.
Therefore we are thinking of breaking this into 3 'tasks' we want to cover for development:
* continue integration - jenkins is doing this now for us (only used for internal contributors tho, would be nice to think of a way external contributors could use it / maybe setting up travis for them)
* code review - We have a test gitlab instance running at https://oniongit.eu [or emuo4mf6vwghcaqn.onion]. Network team has accounts on it and we would like to have more people testing it. Please bear in mind that this is a test machine, it is not backed up, and can be slow on occasions.
* issue tracker - could be gitlab or another solution, we are still looking into how to solve this one
(yes, the wiki is not on this list for now)
So! We would like to propose the following moving forward:
1. Meet on irc to answer any questions on this new approach and get more people trying our gitlab testing installation [MEETING IS ON JULY 11TH TUESDAY AT 1400 UTC ON #tor-project channel]
2. Set up a 'end date' for our gitlab testing phase - that is why we would like more folks trying it out
3. Look into a plan to provide CI for external contributors (using travis maybe?)
4. Create a list of requests for what we need for issue tracker and see what to do about that
We believe that covering the points above will help us move forward with this project.
Please reach out to hiro if you'd like to have access to the gitlab test set up. Any questions/feedback is welcome as always.
thanks! isabela and hiro o/