Re: [RFC] Using gitlab for upstream qemu repo?

[Michael Roth]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 11:04:06AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 17:48, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, this makes sense. Who in practice does it actually affect?
> For the main qemu.git repo, my guess is just me, Michael Roth
> for the stable branches, plus Richard H and Stefan H who both
> volunteered to do a turn on the merge-handling rota once we
> eventually get it set up to not depend on my ad-hoc CI setup.
> 
> I have a gitlab account so I'm set for this. Michael, do you
> have an account there and are you OK with switching to doing
> git pushes to the repo on gitlab rather than direct to qemu.org ?

That's fine by me. My gitlab account is @mdroth, and I've requested
access to qemu.git and qemu-web.git subgroups.

My only concern would be what the lag time might be between updates to
qemu-web.git and the actual website update if the mirroring doesn't
right away. Probably not a huge deal but might be good to know what the
upper bound is if we want to verify the update process went okay.

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM