[tor-project] oniongit update

[isis agora lovecruft]

Silvia [Hiro] transcribed 2.7K bytes:
> Hey everyone,
> I just wanted to send a quick update regarding oniongit and gitlab in
> general.
> 
> So a main issue when teams started testing oniongit was the possibility
> to automatically sync repos on oniongit w/ repos on torgit.
> 
> The idea is always that torgit is pulled by oniongit. This way oniongit
> doesn't write to our git repositories, but we can run code reviews with
> updated branches.
> 
> There are mainly two ways how this can be achieved. The first
> possibility is that torgit push to oniongit whenever master is updated
> (with a post-receive hook maybe).
>
> The other possibility is that a pipeline (gitlab CI feature) is set up
> on oniongit to pull periodically from torgit and update the master branch.

Is it possible to have all branches synced?  Is that a lot of work?

For example, on the network team, we have (at least) two workflows:
one for features going into the next (or some future release), and the
other for bugfixes and things that should get backported.  The first
has its development done in a branch based on master, but in a
developer's personal repo/fork.  The second has it's development done
in a branch based off a `maint-*` branch.  So like for example, for
the second case (since that's more complicated), a workflow might go
like:

-1) (This step is just something I do personally.) I start working on
    #22636, and I make a branch called `bug22636` and push one commit at a
    time to github.com/isislovecruft/tor.git in order to trigger Travis CI
    builds for each commit as I'm working.

 0) I decide my branch is done, tests are passing, and that it should
    be backported to versions 0.2.4 - 0.3.0, so I make a new branch
    `bug22636_0.2.4` and rebase it onto `maint-0.2.4`.  (Again, this
    is just me, but at this point I'd push the backport branch to
    Github to trigger another CI build.)

 1) I make sure tests are passing and then push `bug22636_0.2.4` to
    git.torproject.org/user/isis/tor.git.

 2) Someone reviews the changes between that branch and its base (in
    this case `maint-0.2.4`).

 3) Depending on review:
    a) If review is good, `bug22636_0.2.4` is merged into `maint-0.2.4`
       (and in this case, since it's a backport, also to
       `maint-0.2.{5,6,7,8,9}` and `maint-0.3.0`).
    b) Otherwise, I have to add more commits to `bug22636_0.2.4` and
       goto step #2 until the reviewer is happy.  (Again, this is just
       me: I push commits one at a time to Github to trigger CI before
       pushing anything to git.torproject.org.)

> Note that if you wanted the pipeline could also run a set of tests on
> the branch since this is basically a docker runner that does this on a
> separated server.

Yes, this would be awesome!  Could we get this to run for all
branches?  Also for developer's repos?

Taylor made a ticket for getting this set up:
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22891

> I am in the process of documenting how this can be done. In the meantime
> please let me know if you'd like me to set it up for you.

We can probably reuse a pretty similar configuration as for the Travis
CI configs that Patrick O'Doherty and I made:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/isis/tor.git/tree/.travis.yml?h=bug22636_0.3.1_squashed

> Another update that you might find interesting is the possibility to set
> up confidential issues (although some have rightly said that they do not
> feel comfortable having a web up handling confidential bugs).
> 
> [Please see
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/issues/confidential_issues.html]
> 
> An issue that was also raised since the beginning regarding Trac vs
> Gitlab is the possibility to have components vs keywords vs labels. In
> gitlab everything is done w/ labels, so keep that in mind if you are
> thinking to test issues tracking in oniongit.
> 
> [More on: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/labels.html]
> 
> [More on gitlab flow features here:
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/README.html]
>
> Please let me know if you'd like to have an account on oniongit or if
> you'd like to report any problems that you have found.
> 
> Talk soon,
> -hiro
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