Re: Switching to the GitLab bug tracker

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 11:58:45AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 05/05/2021 11.55, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > On 5/4/21 10:43 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > > > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 01:16:51PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > > > As you might have already noticed by some other mails on the qemu-devel
> > > > > mailing list, we are in progress of switching our bug tracking tool from
> > > > > Launchpad to Gitlab. The new tracker can now be found here:
> > > > >
> > > > >  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for doing this, Thomas!
> > > >
> > > > > 1) We likely won't have the possibility anymore to 
> > > > > automatically send e-mail
> > > > > notifications for new bugs to the qemu-devel mailing list. If you want to
> > > > > get informed about new bugs, please use the notification mechanism from
> > > > > Gitlab instead. That means, log into your gitlab account, browse to
> > > > >
> > > > >  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
> > > > >
> > > > > and click on the bell icon at the top of the page to manage your
> > > > > notifications, e.g. enable notifications for "New issues" there.
> > > >
> > > > All maintainers and most regular contributors should follow the issue
> > > > tracker so that QEMU developers are aware of new issues. Please do this!
> > > >
> > > > An alternative mechanism is the RSS/Atom feed available by clicking the
> > > > "Subscribe to RSS feed" button left of the "New issue" button here:
> > > >
> > > >   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues
> > >
> > > You can also subscribe to labels of interest [*] going to
> > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/labels
> > >
> > > For example in my case I subscribed to receive notifications
> > > only from these labels:
> > >
> > > - kind:Bug
> > > - Storage
> > > - pflash
> > > - Fuzzer
> > > - workflow:Merged
> >
> > Cool feature, I also subscribed to some labels.
> >
> > I was trying to assign a label, for example "Storage" to this issue:
> > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/96
> >
> > but I can't, should I have some special permission/role?
>
> Yes, you need to be at least a "Reporter" in the members list of a 
> project to be able to add labels. You can ask one of the owners (see 
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/project_members) to add you as a 
> reporter.

Thomas, Daniel, thanks for the hint!

Paolo has just added me as a "Reporter".

Stefano