[tor-bugs] #30857 [Internal Services/Services Admin Team]: migrate (some projects? everything?) from trac to gitlab

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#30857: migrate (some projects? everything?) from trac to gitlab
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 Reporter:  anarcat                              |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  project                              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Internal Services/Services Admin     |        Version:
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 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tickets-migration                    |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:  #29400                               |         Points:
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Comment (by anarcat):

 I added comments in the GitLab migration plan. The gist of my
 modifications is as follows:

  1. added the migration itself as a "challenge"
  2. added "milestones" as a possible solution for "ticket relationships"
  3. added details and possible solutions for the irc bot problem
  4. added another possible solution (OpenPGP signatures on commits and
 tags) to the "gitolite" problem
  5. expanded on the CI section (we will still use jenkins at first)
  6. i'm not sure it's totally accurate to say trac is unmaintained
 upstream. the 1.2.x branch had a release about a month ago (aug. 2019) and
 they also released a  new stable branch (1.4) not long ago... so it's
 still maintained
  7. also outlined that Trac also uses javascript in the table
  8. finally, i think i identified a new issue with git repository
 redirections:

 == New issue: git repository redirections

 Finally, i'm a little confused about the way the group/project namespace
 is organized... i see that everything seems to be under "torproject/foo"
 *except* "web/foo" and i wonder why it's been done that way. I would
 definitely put stuff under `tpa/*` for example, and have one project per
 service, with all the service admins stuff under `services/` maybe?

 I'm not sure how best to organize this, but having "everything under
 torproject/ except not quite" doesn't seem like a great match ;) Couldn't
 we replicate the hierarchy from https://gitweb.torproject.org/ ? that
 would make git repository redirections much easier...

 Note that renaming projects in gitlab is cheap and reliable (it keeps
 redirects) so we can also fix this later if we need to, i think, but i'd
 like to get it right, at least in terms of redirections. After all, we
 don't want to tell people that all their git URLs are broken now

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