Gitlab for Wine

[Alexandre Julliard]

Zebediah Figura <zfigura at codeweavers.com> writes:

> On 4/25/22 12:01, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>> Folks,
>> I'm happy to announce that we now have an experimental Gitlab
>> instance
>> for Wine development. Many thanks to everybody who worked on setting
>> this up, notably Arkadiusz Hiler, Derek Lesho, Jeremy Newman and
>> Jeremy White.
>> You can find it at: https://gitlab.winehq.org
>> You should be able to register an account and start playing with it.
>> Currently it contains projects for the main Wine tree, the WineHQ
>> tools, and the WineHQ website. You should be able to fork any of these
>> trees and submit merge requests.
>> We have added a mail gateway that will take merge requests and
>> comments
>> posted on Gitlab, and forward them to wine-devel, so that the full
>> project activity will still be visible on the mailing list.  Most
>> actions can also be accomplished from the command line, with the help of
>> tools like https://github.com/profclems/glab or
>> https://github.com/zaquestion/lab.
>> There's also a wine-demo project that you can use as a playground to
>> test sending merge requests or debug your scripts without messing up the
>> real project. wine-demo activity is not forwarded to wine-devel, so feel
>> free to make mistakes there.
>> Note that no decision has been made to switch to Gitlab yet. This is
>> still an experiment, and if it turns out that it doesn't work for us,
>> we'll scrap it and try something else.
>> That said, I do think that it has the potential to be a very nice
>> improvement, so I'll ask everybody to give it a chance. Please try it
>> to see if it can be made to fit with your workflow, and report what
>> works/doesn't work for you.
>> I'll send a separate email to describe what I expect that the final
>> workflow would look like.
>> Looking forward to your feedback...
>> 
>
> To clarify, this is "effective immediately", i.e. right now patches
> submitted either via gitlab or via wine-devel will be reviewed and 
> committed, right?

Yes. Merge requests may take more time to go in though, since the
tooling on my side is still a work in progress.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org