Background

KDE is considering a migration to GitLab: members from the KDE Board of Directors, the KDE Sysadmin team and the KDE Onboarding Initiative have been following the GNOME migration as a model and have been in touch with the GNOME Foundation and GitLab. GitLab will be initially assisting them with a Proof of Concept to facilitate making an assessment and a decision that will ultimately be consulted with the KDE community.

The KDE Community is a free software community dedicated to creating an open and user-friendly computing experience, offering an advanced graphical desktop, a wide variety of applications for communication, work, education and entertainment and a platform to easily build new applications upon. We have a strong focus on finding innovative solutions to old and new problems, creating a vibrant atmosphere open for experimentation.

Goals

The main goals for a successful migration would be:

More accessible infrastructure for contributors

Code review integration with git

Streamlined infrastructure and tooling

Good relationship and open communication channel with upstream (GitLab in this case)

Migration issues tracker

KDE keeps a list of issues with priorities relevant to the migration at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57338

Discussion

We are at the initial stages of discussion, which can be followed on the notes from our regular calls.

KDE is currently looking at a self-hosted solution rather than hosting at gitlab.com. Due to their policy of only hosting Free Software on their servers the present consideration is to use gitlab-ce with the Core subscription

Current KDE tooling and infrastructure

Gitolite Authentication and Authorization (some repositories are push restricted) Repository management Custom hooks providing notifications via email and IRC, as well as updating statuses of tasks and bugs on Phabricator and Bugzilla

Phabricator Code and asset reviews Task tracking Kanban boards Wikis

Bugzilla Bug reports Automated crash reports

LDAP-based SSI + management Web UI

Jenkins CI: Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, Android CD: Linux (Appimage & Flatpak), Windows, MacOS and Android



GitLab replacements

Test instance

https://invent.kde.org/kde/

Collaborators