Re: Sourceware forge experiment

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM Mark Wielaard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As an experiment Sourceware is now running an forgejo v9 instance at
> https://forge.sourceware.org
>
> Everybody with an @sourceware.org, @cygwin.com or @gcc.gnu.org address
> can register an account (please use the same user name as your account
> name).
>
> The setup has disabled most "extras" (no badges, stars, issues, wikis,
> packages, timetracking, milestones, etc.). And users can only fork
> existing repos (it has mirrors of various sourceware projects).

Is the intent to get mirrors of all of them on there at some point?
I'm only seeing a few at the moment...

> Some things haven't been setup yet (external trackers/bugzilla, incoming
> email, ci, etc.)

I was able to get the link to an external tracker (the gcc bugzilla)
set up in my "gcc-mirror" fork:
https://forge.sourceware.org/egallager/gcc-mirror

>
> The full setup can be found in this git repository:
> https://sourceware.org/cgit/forge/
>
> For now it is only open for existing maintainers/developers for
> experimentating with a pull-request model.

So, I tested this out: I forked the gcc-mirror and gcc-wwwdocs-mirror
repos, but it looks like the mirror ones aren't accepting PRs at the
moment, so I tried forking their "-TEST" variants, but it looks like
it won't let me make a fork of the "-TEST" copy since I already have a
fork of the "-mirror" one? When I click the "fork" button on one of
the "-TEST" repos, it just redirects me back to my existing "-mirror"
fork of the corresponding "-mirror" one...

> We can add others as long as they understand this is an experiment
> and does not mean projects are accepting patches through it.
> Contributions should still be sent through the mailinglists.
>
> There is also a new mailinglist for discussion about the setup and the
> best way to create a pull-request workflow. Please subscribe if you
> create an account and mention which project/organization you would
> like do some experiments for. We can then add you to that organization.
>

...is subscribing necessary? I'm trying to limit my subscriptions...

> https://sourceware.org/mailman/listinfo/forge