Fedora Migration to Gitlab | Ask Me Anything (AMA) | Thursday, September 10, 2020

As some of you may already know, Fedora is #movingtogitlab!

In order to help with the transition, team members from GitLab and the Fedora Community will be holding an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.

Keep reading for more details.

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On March 27, 2020, Fedora announced its decision to use GitLab as its git-forge (see announcement here). This announcement was met with mixed reactions because it meant a move away from Pagure, Fedora’s current home-grown git-forge tool.

Since the announcement, the Red Hat Community Platform Engineering (CPE) team, which is part of the Fedora community, has been working with members of the GitLab team to evaluate next steps (see migration tracker issue).

During this Ask Me Anything (AMA), we welcome questions about the upcoming migration!

Where and When?

The AMA will be done via realtime chat on IRC.

If you do not already have an IRC chat provider, you can participate in the AMA via web browser by clicking on the link below.

• IRC channel: #fedora-meeting-1
• Date/Time: Thursday, September 10th at 13:30 UTC (see this in your local time here)

If you are unable to attend the AMA session, feel free to post questions here in this thread and we will try to answer them during the AMA.

One thing I am curious about is how this will impact workflows for existing teams on our Pagure git forge.

My perspective is as a maintainer/participant of several non-software Fedora teams with several important discussion in issues and docs published from our git repos. In 2015, we moved from a Trac-based system to Pagure. It cost a lot of time, energy, and effort from a mostly volunteer community in order to preserve our discussions. (Although we did have great help from folks at Red Hat who wrote self-service software to migrate Trac issues and repositories into Pagure.)

I would want to move to GitLab and use more advanced features for project management, but I need that historical record of issues where important decisions dating back to at least 2008 are recorded. And we do actually go looking for those super old tickets because they have valuable context!

So, my question about the impact on workflows for existing teams in Pagure is centered on how much support and mentorship will be available to help teams migrate their projects from Pagure to GitLab.

Will the Fedora Gitlab be using Kerberos authentication (like Koji)? It is a bit weird/cumbersome to maintain two authentication tokens.