[pacman-dev] Move to gitlab.archlinux.org

[Colin Woodbury]

Hi Allan, any idea when that general registration would be opened up?

Thanks,
Colin

> Hi all,
>
> With Arch shutting down our current git hosting in the near future, the
> main repo for pacman development has moved to:
>
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman
>
> Note that the bug tracker will remain on Flyspray and patches will
> remain submitted through the mailing list until such time that
> registration for an Arch Gitlab account is open for the wider community.
>
>
>
> With the move to gitlab, we now have some CI happening (though only post
> push at the moment).  We currently test a bunch of configurations under
> Arch, and fairly default things under Fedora and Debian.  If any of our
> BSD friends want to provide an addition to the CI configuration
> (.gitlab-ci.yml), I am more than happy to include it.
>
> I will move some of the development notes (e.g. my wiki page for the
> rough design of alternatives etc) into the project wiki.
>
> I'd also like to use the project wiki as an index for Feature Requests,
> and keep the bug tracker for only bugs.  The idea would be any feature
> request file gets discussed, and if we deem it a suitable addition it
> then gets added to the wiki.   That way we can have an annotated list of
> potential future feature that anyone can see without having to sift
> through a bug tracker.  Also, real bugs that need fixed will be easier
> to spot.   I am thinking it best to start on this before we open up the
> issue tracking on gitlab as it will clear our Flyspray bug list up quite
> a lot.
>
> Cheers,
> Allan