… and closed about a bazillion bugs I filed over the years in the process without (apparently) migrating them, too.<p>… though I am pretty sure they left the bugs in the source intact.
Here's the link to the repos, which was strangely not included in the blog post:<p><a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.gnome.org/explore/groups</a>
The comparison between Phabricator and Gitlab is quite interesting: <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure</a>
Now it's time for them to move to Node.<p>They currently use the JS engine from Firefox 45 (over 2 years old) and are looking to move to 52 (almost 15 months old). Let's not forget that the update before that was from FF25 which was from 2013.<p>It's past time to port your stuff to N-API and actually allow devs to have access to standard dev tools using standard dev practices.<p>It would be a great change for Gnome devs too. Rather than spending weeks of dev time trying to shim in the latest SpiderMonkey version and make sure nothing broke, they could rely on N-API being stable, so they can focus instead on updating the JS interface to ES6+.
The new gitlab setup is lovely. Browsing the source code and bugs/issues is much more pleasant than it was before. It is giving me an itch to contribute to GNOME somehow.
The actual GitLab instance appears to be at [1], I couldn't find this in the link or the gnome.org announcement.<p>Good news, though! I am hopeful it can help lower the barrier to entry.<p>[1] <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME</a>
The last time I evaluated GitLab, you needed the paid version to use features that I considered pretty basic, like merge request approvals and multiple code reviewers[1]. I'm wondering now if the GNOME people consider these unnecessary, or if I misunderstood what was possible with self hosting.<p>[1] <a href="https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow">https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/</a>
This is very annoying because I can no longer see the list of bugs I filed against GNOME products. They are all owned by 'bugzilla-migration', not me!<p>[additional] I appear to be subscribed to the issues that I filed in Bugzilla and were migrated to GitLab, but there's no way to get a list of all the issues I'm subscribed to: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12697" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12697</a>
I guess we know why now:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17221527</a>
Highly unrelated (and lots of reasons missing): I was never a fan of Gnome and for years ended up "just going with LXDE instead" until I gave Budgie a try about 6 months ago. I have never been happier in my life.
Slightly related, Does anyone have a virtual machine image of Ghome-Development environment that I can use straight away. I am on a corporate RHEL 6 machine, so it has been very tough to be able to get the development environment up and running there.<p>I am not even able to mame changes to gnome-terminator 1XX version because of this.
> Carlson proved in 1938 that this process was viable, using moss spores for toner. But when he pitched it to Kodak, General Electric Co., and other tech giants of the day, the response was, as he later put it, “an enthusiastic lack of interest.”<p>Another story where the inventor goes to big companies to sell the product and they dont take him seriously which is kind of funny when Xerox became a big corp, it did not take the GUI/Ethernet created by their people seriously.
Too bad GitHub was out of the question just because it's not open source. I don't think there is a single platform out there that has done more for the open source community than GitHub. Most of the great OSS projects are on it and it helped democratize open source participation by providing a very nice UI and a set of robust tools that simply didn't exist before.