March 2015 - announcements - mailman3.common-lisp.net

common-lisp.net GitLab deployment and migration completed successfully
by Erik Huelsmann 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

common-lisp.net has successfully deployed GitLab and migrated users, groups, group-memberships and the existing publicly visible git repositories to it. Redirection rules for git access, gitweb and trac have been established and tested. In the migration, we created 390 users, 434 gitlab groups (=projects) and 210 gitlab projects (= git repositories). Should you experience problems, please discuss on clo-devel(a)common-lisp.net or report to admin(a)common-lisp.net. Repositories are no longer available under their original locations. Repositories which *are* still in their original locations, have not been migrated to GitLab. The code to seed the system, was written in Common Lisp. In order to do so, we wrote a (minimal) web binding for GitLab's web API. The sources are in a Mercurial repository available at https://common-lisp.net/~ehuelsmann/cl-gitlab and will be moved to https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cl-gitlab shortly. We hope you enjoy our improved user experience! -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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GitLab migration and Go-Live
by Erik Huelsmann 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Progress of the GitLab installation and migration scripts has been very good. With some last tests to go, we're confident we can complete installation and migration on *Friday March 20th, 2015. The window 08:00h - 12:00h UTC* has been designated to perform installation and migration. During that window *existing git repositories with public visibility* (i.e. http or gitweb access -- git:// access not counted) will be migrated into GitLab [0]. There's no impact on Subversion, CVS, mercurial, darcs or bazaar repositories. Users with git repositories without http or gitweb access, who want to use GitLab for their project are kindly requested to contact the site admins. After the migration, *migrated repositories will be removed from their current physical path locations*. Repositories will *only* be accessible through GitLab and stored in a location managed by GitLab. Users who want to make backups should do so by keeping a local clone of their git repository(-ies). As part of the migration, *GitLab accounts will be created for all users* of the common-lisp.net system. Each user with a .forward file in their home directory on the system will receive an account confirmation e-mail. This confirmation request is valid for 48 hours. *All accounts must be confirmed before use* - the system blocks accounts until confirmed. Your account can be used immediately after confirmation, even during the migration window. As part of the migration, SSH keys found in the user's home directory will be imported into the user's GitLab account. You will receive an e-mail to confirm this happened. As part of the migration, *Gitlab groups will be created*, mirroring the common-lisp.net "project" concept. Users currently part of a project by virtue of being member of a unix group on common-lisp.net will be assigned GitLab group membership for the mirror group in the role of Owner. Notification mails are sent out due to the migration process. Projects that wish to use GitLab's more fine-grained permisssions[1] can do so after migration completes. As part of the migration, *existing git repositories will be imported into GitLab* under the group or account which mirrors the common-lisp.net project or account. All repositories will have a *public* visibility. Each repository on common-lisp.net becomes a *project* in GitLab. This means each repository gets an issue tracker and wiki set up. Any project that wishes not to use those can turn those off in the Settings page for the GitLab project after the migration. Due to the nature of the migration process, *the Administrator account will be a member of all GitLab projects and groups.* This can be corrected after the migration. After the migration, gitweb access won't be available anymore. It will be replaced by URL redirection to GitLab. git:// protocol support won't be available anymore either. While the migration is in progress, SSH access to the system will be blocked to prevent repositories being updated while migrated. Should you want to start a new project in GitLab, please ask the site admins to create a group for it. Please note that this is just one of the steps in the restructuring plan for common-lisp.net. Further steps as indicated in [2] will be executed later and will affect repositories for other version control systems as well as other services. In case of questions please follow up to clo-devel(a)common-lisp.net: the announcements mailing list is closed for posting. [0] Full list of affected repositories: https://common-lisp.net/gitlab-migration-repository-mapping/ (note: updated today!) [1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/permissions/permiss… [2] https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/clo-devel/2015-February/000161.ht… -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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Testing GitLab installation & migration nearing completion: steps to cut-over
by Erik Huelsmann 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

Hi all, As some of you have noticed this weekend, we're still working on migrating the common-lisp.net repositories to GitLab. While doing so, a few e-mails have been sent out while they should have been held and deleted on the testing system. My appologies if it caused confusion or inconvenience. So far, we've run multiple successful installation-and-configuration runs. We have also successfully completed seeding the system with users, groups and group members. There are a few things that need some more testing, which will be done over the next week or so: * Importing of users' public SSH keys * Apache gitweb redirect rules to the relevant GitLab URLs * Repository migration script (the script that moves the repositories under GitLab control) While we're working on these last steps, it would be highly appreciated if people would take a bit of time to review the repository mapping published on https://common-lisp.net/gitlab-migration-repository-mapping/ . The page lists all existing public git repositories, from both users and projects. On the listing, you can see under which name the repository will be mapped to the GitLab system. We expect to complete testing in the next two weeks, so if you could provide your feedback by Friday 13th, that would fit the timelines best. Then a little about the actual cut-over. On the day of the cut-over (most likely a Sunday morning, CET), the scripts that we have developed over the past weeks will be run in close succession. This means we'll be installing GitLab, creating users, creating groups, assigning users to groups (creating members, in GitLab terminology) and importing git repositories in the GitLab system. The entire process should not take more than a few hours. The system sends out a number of mails during the seeding phase, some or all of which you may receive: * Account confirmation - after account creation, the system requires verification before the account can be used * Membership creation - after your account has been assigned membership in a project, you'll be notified by mail about that * Import of SSH keys - after an SSH key has been associated with a user that user is notified of that fact It's possible that you won't get mail from account creation, if your common-lisp.net account doesn't have a .forward file. In that case, now would be a good time to create one, if you want to use your GitLab account. Another important thing to note is that repositories having been brought under GitLab control, will no longer be available on their old locations. For gitweb, there will be redirect rules instated, as will there be for direct repository access over https. If you have questions, please follow up to this mail on clo-devel(a)common-lisp.net. The announcements channel is closed for posting. -- Bye, Erik. http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP. Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.

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