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Ok, welcome back to the second session
of the day.

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It's going to be Alexander Wirt talking
about salsa.debian.org.

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[Applause]

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Thank you, good morning.

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I usually don't give talks in english,
so please be nice to me.

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However, I'm here.

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I want to talk today about our journey
for Alioth

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which is still running, but not for long
anymore,

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to our new service, salsa.

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I want to get a little bit into the history
of old things

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and what we have already achieved,
what we still need to achieve

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and what are our plans for the future.

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Let's start with the basic things,
who am I.

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I am the guy who rejects the mails
on lists.debian.org,

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I am a listmaster.

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I am the guy that rejects your backports.

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I am the backports ftp master.

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And I am the guy that will destroy
alioth.debian.org.

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For the last ten years

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[Applause]

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I was an admin by accident of
alioth.debian.org.

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This is another story I will tell you
in a few minutes.

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Beside from that, I work as an OpenSource
consultant at credativ,

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which is a small company in Germany
which is specialized in OpenSource,

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we only do OpenSource consulting
in Germany.

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We do what today is called DevOps,
we do every kind of consulting.

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If you do something with OpenSource,
we are probably the ones you can talk with.

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I am a father of two wonderful girls,

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they're not here unfortunately,

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but otherwise I wouldn't be able
to work.

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And in my little bit spare time, I do
role playing games and Tabletop games.

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In theory there should be a picture now.

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There's a picture missing,
I don't know why,

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which should tell "We need you".

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A little bit of advertisement, if you
want to do OpenSource work in Germany,

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paid,

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and you need a job, please talk to me.

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We are always looking for good people,
especially in C development,

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kernel development, but also of course
consulting.

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So please talk to me.

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Some steps in history.

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Some years ago, ???
2008, 2009,

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I told the alioth channel

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"Hey, if you need help, I can help with
system administration,

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not the GForge stuff which is running
above,

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but if you need help, tell me."

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[Audience] Big mistake

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Yeah.

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One or two years went by,
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all alioth admins left.

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We were alone in the channel.

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And around that time, I detected

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"Hey, I have sudo permissions
and I'm admin"

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Somebody made me an admin.

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So, I had to decide that I will be
the person that is the future alioth admin

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and I stepped in.

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So it was the beginning of our alioth
journey.

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Then, in DebConf15, we had a long
'Birds of a Feather'

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where we talked about several security
problems in collab-maint,

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some of you are maybe not aware of it,

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but since we use git at filesystem level
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we are introducing a number of interesting
security problems

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like if someone writes a hook, that hook
gets executed every time someone pushes.

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So you have basically shell access.

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And of course you execute it as
your own uid.

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So, if some DM (Debian Maintainer) or even
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has write access to collab-maint,

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drops some hooks in,

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it can make you execute code on Alioth
at your uid, which is a problem.

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We did some things to solve that problem,
but the main problem remained.

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So, along that time, we decided that we
would need a successor for git.debian.org.

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At that point, we are talking about gitolite

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which we evaluated at that time.

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However, as ???

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Two years went into the land and
nothing real happened,

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we just played with it.

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Then, May 2017, a thread comes up,
"Moving away from fusionforge".

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What nobody was really aware of, is that
alioth is on a Wheezy machine

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and Wheezy is ??? out of security
support end of the month.

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So time was running up.

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The thread was long as usual on
debian-devel and

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we decided to do a few steps, like
evaluating things

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and in June 2017, I did a survey about
our new alioth services.

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It was clear at that point that I wouldn't
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alioth had in the future

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so we decided to just bring over
the important things.

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What is important? For everyone,
everything else is important

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so I decided to do a survey which was
pretty successful

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with a few hundreds submissions.

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Then, in…

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Then we evaluated… "we" as probably "me",

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evaluated a few solutions, named pagure,
which is the git solution Fedora is using,

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which is a Python thing based on gitolite,

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gitlab, which is the biggest Github
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gogs/gitea, which is some golang-based
small git service.

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pagure turned out to be not stable enough
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and we would have to do to much coding
inside pagure to use it in our infrastructure

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because pagure is very strongly ???
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specially its user authentication and
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Gitlab had an other problem called
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"contributor license agreement"
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I and others were not very happy with
contributing code to Gitlab

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which is something that will always
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And gogs and gitea is nice but it's small

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It will not be able to manage 10,000s
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Next step happened in August 2017 when
we had a sprint here in Hamburg

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at the hackerlab CCC on the other side
of the building,

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where we talked about it.

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After long discussions, we decided to go
with Gitlab

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because Gitlab, at that point, was
the best solution that was already ready.

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We didn't have to adapt too much, we don't
need to patch it

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which turned out it isn't true, but it's
an other problem

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It had features like continuous integration
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it had features like code review ready,
wiki pretty good working

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and ??? very scalable
in all directions

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Every component is scalable which is
good for us.

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This is a TODO point, I wanted to add
an image about the restaurant

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where we decided on the name "salsa".

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Somebody of you may ask yourself where
the name is coming from.

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There's a small mexican restaurant
a few hundred meters from here

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where you can get great burritos and
they have a painting at the back

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with the term "salsa" written

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and we were deciding on a name which
just not describes the type of service on it

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so we wanted…

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Yes, it's also a sauce. So salsa had sauce.

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I wanted to call it Klaus, but we decided
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in the restaurant with the name "salsa"
and so it's called salsa.

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In the meanwhile, we talked a lot with
the Gitlab people

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which were very kind and helped us
with our problems.

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We also talked with them about the CLA
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the lawyer of SPI was also involved,

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we made them to remove the CLA
and replace it with something better.

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Contributing patches to Gitlab is now
much easier and better

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which is something we are very proud of

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[Applause]

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And between November and the 25th of
December, we implemented salsa two times

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First time on ???.debian.net where we had
root but

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after more discussions we decided having
this maintained at a (debian).org box

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would be better, which made us
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and develop a ??? to be able to install
gitlab as a non-privileged user

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but we did that.

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In Christmas, he was able to release
salsa into public beta.

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Things went well, which allowed, at the
end of January, salsa to leave the beta

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Since then it's official, our official
git successor.

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What will happen in the future?

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Oh no, this is already past.

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On May, we disable user and project
creation on alioth.

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Still in May, we disabled the not so much
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bazaar, mercurial and darcs

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On Thursday (May 17th 2018), I disabled
projects web sites.

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And this is future, at the end the month,

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all other remaining version control systems
on alioth will get disabled.

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So if you have anything running on alioth,
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cron jobs are also disabled so
you don't have cron jobs enabled anymore

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Be it whatever you think of, remove it.

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1st of June, alioth will be off, you won't
be able to get any data anymore

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from alioth.

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You can get the ??? via DSA to get
subsequent backups, that's up to you

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but I don't recommend it and they won't
like it.

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In June, alioth will come to an end.

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It served us well for 10, 15 years, but
its time is over.

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Some numbers.
Where are we now?

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Yesterday (May 18th 2018), we had
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3200 users, 400 groups, which sums up
around 90GB on disk, which is nice.

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For a service running for more or less
6 months, it's a pretty nice number.

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What are our future plans.

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??? Docker registry, by now
you can use external registries

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which is working

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You can the gitlab registry for
Docker images

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but it will be nicer to have our own
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That is pretty high on my todo list, after
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We want more runners, so you are able to
sponsor runners, if you have machines or

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some money you want to spend on runners,
please tell us.

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What are runners? Runners are the things
that are used by Gitlab CI to build code

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or test code, or do things.

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You can use it to build your packages,
you can use it to autopkgtest you packages

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you can use it to build websites or
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It's pretty useful and I think using CI more
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We should really get more into it.

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There are already some projects like
the reproducible builds, the debci guys

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that are working on such stuff

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and now we have the infrastructure that
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"devops" which is based on kubernetes
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deploy and test things properly.

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So if you have package which implements
a web service, you can even run

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you can test it, you can even record it,
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all based on this devops feature which
would also be a nice thing.

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By now, we don't have a kubernetes instance
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so if you have a spare kubernetes instance
you want to offer Debian,

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please talk to us.

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And integration with sso.debian.org,
which is another side project of mine

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and some of ??? students, sitting there.

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We want to build a successor for
the command sso.debian.org

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which has a problem that it doesn't have
a user backend,

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the user backend is alioth,
you see the problem

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But it just the case for our guest users.

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The official Debian Developers come from
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but we have a problem with guest users,
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source for managing those guest users,
especially give additional groups like

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"Hey, the user's a DM"

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I would love to give all DMs access to
the Debian group, write access,

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but I can't currently because I'm not able
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which is something we want to solve with
the new sso.debian.org feature.

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sso.debian.org should also develop a new
authentication protocol like OAuth2,

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which we will use for salsa but new
services can also rely on,

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??? a way from this certificate stuff
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but it's not that good integrated in most
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and it doesn't work that well.

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We hope to have, we already have
a prototype, and we hope to have it live

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until the end of the summer.

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What we left behind.

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We don't have shells anymore.

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So you won't be able to run any cron jobs
or other stuff on salsa and

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please don't ask, we won't give anyone
a shell on salsa.debian.org or godard

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which is the host hosting it.

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We hape APIs, several of them,
I will show them

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Please use them, we won't run any
cron jobs or custom stuff on gitlab,

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it was a nightmare on alioth to maintain
and to administrate

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and I will never, never want to get
into this again.

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What we also don't have are custom domains
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DSA decided against it, so you will have
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projectname.pages.debian.net until
someone decides for that feature.

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We also left behind old version…
not so much anymore version control systems

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like darcs, bazaar, subversion which isn't
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but we also don't have cvs anymore,
which may be a surprise for someone

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but Debian is still a heavy user of cvs,
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But maybe they will now migrate faster
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They are working on it, I know,
they're working on it for 10 years

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but things are getting faster and
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in migrating away from cvs.

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Yeah, ???, that's right,
we also left mercurial,

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or whatever people have in their
home directory.

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Yeah we also had rcs on alioth, there
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What we got instead.

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We got a bunch of new features
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So, this is such… maybe a start of new
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we got a bunch of collaboration features.

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sending a patch and hoping.

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Now we can use merge requests, which
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modify packages or repositories, and after
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or whatever and create a nice merge
request which is already heavily used

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by some projects like apt or dak or my own
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That allows ???, the admins
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to review code easily, they can add
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??? people out of the mailing list.

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If people update a bunch and they
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get updated which is a workflow we are
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which is pretty nice in my eyes.

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This also allows contribution to packages
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It lowers the barrier for people to
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which is in my eyes a good feature,

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something I always liked on Github and
I'm happy we are having it too now.

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Gitlab has a nice feature of good, well
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some things could be better, but it's
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but in most cases Gitlab is still
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except if you've hit some of the bugs
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but that's an other problem.

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If you don't like the web frontend,
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nearly everything the web frontend
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which can integrate into git to allow
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allow you to process merge requests
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if you don't like web frontends.

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You can also open merge requests
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you can just hit the right buttons,
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that you can use.

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some of the not so known research.

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Issues.

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You can track todo items or bugs.

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Please, this is not intended for Debian
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so please don't replace the BTS

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but using it as an issue tracker or todo
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We are using it all the time.

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We're also having some upstream projects
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which is ???

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but every project has ??? to just
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You have boards where you can organize
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you can add sprints, you can add
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all the basic stuff you need to have
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you can just use your mail client
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You can also close issues by merge requests.

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So, similar to our BTS, Gitlab has
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It's all the same. So "Close", "Closes"…
and so on, it's all the same

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and we close here your issues.

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You can even close issues in other
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you can even close it with that syntax.

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You can also create issues by mail,
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you have that "email new issue" button
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to submit bugs if you don't want to use
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What we also got are webhooks.

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Custom hooks are not anymore possible
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the repositories directly

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someone pushed something, someone took
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we have two IRC bots available for you
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You can automatically close or tag
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you find a small paragraph about it
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as we did before, if you close a bug
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tag pending webhook, your bug will
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like before if you used the ???
hooks on alioth.