[tor-project] reminder meeting (Re: Follow up Gitlab next steps (Re: update on ticket system discussion)

[Gaba]

Hi!

A reminder that we are meeting tomorrow September 17th to discuss this
proposal of migration from trac.

gaba

El 9/6/19 a las 1:52 PM, Gaba escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> With Pili we have been working on this document to compare features
> between trac and gitlab as well as proposal for a structure and
> workflows. Please take a look and send
> comments/feedback/edits/adds/questions.
> 
> https://nc.riseup.net/s/SnQy3yMJewRBwA7
> 
> It seems that the next step will be to get together between everybody
> interested in this transition (or in not doing it) and discuss this plan
> as well as how to move forward.
> 
> We are going to meet on
> 
> September 17th, at 18UTC in #tor-meeting
> 
> Please, send me, pili or to the mailing list any comment if you can not
> make it to the meeting.
> 
> cheers,
> gaba
> 
> 
> El 7/29/19 a las 8:07 AM, Gaba escribió:
>> Hi!
>>
>> There has been some discussion in the 'corridors' of Tor and in the last
>> meeting face to face during the session on 'internal tooling' and
>> specifically about tickets system. I'm sending this mail to try to
>> summarize what the discussion has been until now, make it transparent
>> and try to get an agreement on how to move forward.
>>
>>
>> Problem:
>> - Trac software is not being mantained (from our perspective of users of
>> Trac this is a bomb getting ready to explode) [0]
>>
>>
>> Solution
>> - Move out into a better (possible feature parity with what we use now
>> AND integration between project management tool and tickets) and
>> mantained ticketing system.
>>
>>
>> Discussion until now
>> - A few years ago there was a survey [1] on which features people would
>> like to see in a new ticketing system.
>> - There is a ticket [2] that has a discussion on features needed and a
>> document [3] that brainstorm features between trac and gitlab.
>> - The last meeting in Stockholm there has been several discussions on
>> what is needed. [4]
>> - In 2017 Hiro and the network team experimented with the oniongit.eu
>> Gitlab instance.
>> - In 2019, a test instance was setup, called "dip.torproject.org"[5],
>> that a few projects are using right now to test its use.
>>
>>
>> We are mostly considering Gitlab (until now) because:
>> 1. We can host it ourselves and not have other company control the data.
>> 2. It is open source [6].
>> 3. It is mantained [7].
>> 4. It supports the project management tool that we are interested in.
>>
>>
>> Before moving forward we need:
>> 1. Consensus or a clear compromise on what to move into.
>> 2. A plan on how the migration to a new ticketing system will happen. I
>> started drafting it here (thinking that Gitlab would be the new one)
>> [8]. This plan is still a work in progress and we will continue doing it
>> when we all agree on which system to move into.
>>
>> cheers,
>> gaba
>>
>> [0] https://trac.edgewall.org/roadmap
>> [1]
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V4Faq2y9vv8XTp-OADl4YRMTiRB0G9DHvj23NRpwzcc/edit#gid=0
>> [2] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30857
>> [3] https://nc.riseup.net/s/TYX37BDT4eQfTiW
>> [4]
>> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2019Stockholm/Notes/InternalTooling
>> [5] https://dip.torproject.org
>> [6] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org
>> [7] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/roadmap?layout=MONTHS
>> [8] https://nc.riseup.net/s/SnQy3yMJewRBwA7
>>
> 

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