Migrating to the gitlab issue tracker

[John Snow]

If you're in the CC list, it's because you are listed in MAINTAINERS.

Paolo's QEMU keynote this morning mentioned the possible use of the 
Gitlab issue tracker instead of using Launchpad.

I'm quite fond of the gitlab issue tracker, I think it works quite well 
and it has pretty good and uncomplicated API access to it in order to 
customize your workflow if you'd really like to.

In experimenting with my mirror on gitlab though, I was unable to find a 
way to configure it to send issue tracker notifications to the email 
list. A move to gitlab would likely mean, then:

1. The cessation of (automatic) issue tracker mails to the list
2. The loss of the ability to update the issue tracker by replying to 
said emails
3. Anyone listed in MAINTAINERS would be expected to have a gitlab 
account in order to interact with the issue tracker.

However, once you have a gitlab account, you DO gain the ability to 
receive emails for issues; possibly only those tagged with labels that 
you cared about -- giving a nice filtering mechanism to receive only 
bugs you care about.

Gitlab also does support individual accounts updating issues using a 
generated personalized email address, so if the email workflow is 
crucial to you, it is still available.

I'm for it, or at least for beginning a pilot program where we 
experiment with the idea for interested parties. I wanted to send up a 
trial balloon to see how we were feeling about this.

--js