Re: Membership of the debian-gis-team on Salsa (Was: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta)
Hi Bas,
Salsa is ready. What a nice Christmas present! I have requested
membership of the team on the website. I am also happy to be a backup
administrator if you like (which you mentioned in the migration thread).
Thanks for kicking things off!
Regards,
Ross
On 25/12/17 13:26, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Now that the GitLab instance that is going to replace Alioth has entered
> beta, it was a good time to create the Debian GIS Project team there:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/groups/debian-gis-team
>
> It is also a good time to reduce the list of inactive members, so I
> don't plan on adding all the members from Alioth.
>
> For all non-DDs, please register an account on Salsa as documented in
> the forwarded annoucement, and reply to this thread to request
> membership of the debian-gis-team on Salsa. All DDs already have an
> account and only need to request membership of the team.
>
> It doesn't seem possible to give all DDs access to the repository like
> on Alioth, so we'll have to grant membership to individual users.
>
> I don't know yet when I'll start migrating the git repositories from
> Alioth to Salsa. At the latest when Alioth is switched to read-only.
>
> If you want to keep contributing to packages maintained by the Debian
> GIS team, have a look at Salsa and request membership of the team.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: salsa.debian.org (git.debian.org replacement) going into beta
> Resent-Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 10:46:04 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 11:45:37 +0100
> From: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>
> To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
> Since summer we have worked on our git.debian.org replacement based
> on GitLab. I am really happy to say that we are launching the beta of
> our service
> today. Please keep in mind that it is a beta, we don't expect any database
> resets, but under unexpected circumstances it might still happen.
>
> The new service is available at https://salsa.debian.org. Every active
> Debian
> Developer already has an account. Please request a password reset via
> https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in -- your login is either your
> Debian login or Debian e-mail address. SSH Keys from udldap get synced
> into your account.
>
> Guest users
> -----------
>
> External users are invited to create an account on salsa. To avoid
> clashes with
> future Debian Developers, we are enforcing a '-guest' suffix for any
> guest username.
> Therefore we developed a self-service portal which allows non-Debian
> Developers to sign up,
> available at https://signup.salsa.debian.org.
> Please keep in mind that your username will have '-guest' appended.
>
> Project creation
> ----------------
>
> Every user can create projects in their own namespace (similar to GitHub).
>
> Teams
> -----
>
> For larger projects you can also create a group to host your projects.
> To avoid clashes with usernames (that share the same namespace as
> groups) we are requiring
> groups to have a '-team' suffix to their name.
> Groups can be created using the same self-service portal
> https://signup.salsa.debian.org.
> For larger, already-established teams it is also possible to ask us to
> create the group with a
> name not conforming to the normal team namespace. Examples are teams
> like *debian-qa*. Please create an issue in the support[1] project.
>
> Collab-maint
> ------------
>
> If you want to allow other Debian Developers to work on your packages or
> software, you can create projects within the
> **Debian** group. Every Debian Developer has write access to projects
> created in this group.
> If you create a project within the Debian group, you are implicitly
> welcoming all DDs to contribute directly to the project.
>
> Guest users can only be added to individual projects with the Debian
> group, but not to the entire Debian group. This is different to the
> policy for the collab-maint group on Alioth.
>
> GitLab runners
> --------------
>
> We won't provide any shared Gitlab runners for now. If you want to
> sponsor resources for such runners please contact us.
>
>
> Gitlab pages
> ------------
>
> We will support Gitlab pages in the future, but more work is needed
> first. We will post an update when they
> are ready.
>
> Migration of repositories
> -------------------------
>
> We don't plan to do any automatic migration of alioth repositories. If
> you use a repository and think it is important (!) migrate it on your
> own. We will provide a read-only export of all repositories that weren't
> exported after disabling alioth.
>
> Timeline
> --------
>
> We want to run this beta at least for four weeks. If everything goes
> well we intend to leave beta around the end of January.
>
> Documentation
> -------------
>
> Documentation of the service will happen in the Debian Wiki [2]. Please
> feel free to enhance the documentation.
> See also the upstream GitLab docs [3].
>
> Getting help
> ------------
>
> If you have problems with the service you can reach us:
> - IRC: #alioth@irc.debian.org
> - Mailing list:
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/alioth-staff-replacement
> - Issue tracker: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support/issues
> Don't expect us to be responsive during the holidays, so be patient :).
>
>
> Request for help
> ----------------
>
> If you want to take part in salsa administration please get in touch
> with us. We want to have at least two more administrators
> for the Gitlab instance.
>
>
> Thanks for your attention
>
> Alex on behalf of the salsa team
>
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa/Doc
> [3] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/README.html
>
>
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