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Re: Results of the salsa sprint



>>>>> "Bastian" == Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:

    Bastian> Hi Steve
    Bastian> On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 03:53:24PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
    >> Have people been pushing the other way - to remove the suffix?
    >> Just curious.

    Bastian> That was me.  It's because of the maintenance overhead.
    Bastian> That name restriction isn't a feature of upstream GitLab.
    Bastian> It requires to function - the signup web interface and -
    Bastian> some scary patches to GitLb, And I still know some places
    Bastian> where it just breaks stuff.

    Bastian> So the question is: does the burden of maintaining those
    Bastian> parts and verifying that they actually work outweigh the
    Bastian> burden that someone might rename groups for fun?

How many times has it broken in the last couple years?
how much time do you spend on it?

My gut is that the keeping user namespaces separate from group
namespaces is really quite important.


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