[fpc-devel] FPC & Lazarus moving to gitlab

[Martin Frb]

On 23/06/2021 00:09, Ryan Joseph via fpc-devel wrote:
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>> On Jun 22, 2021, at 4:02 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>> The plan has *never* been GitHub. The original plan was self hosted with a *mirror* on GitHub. Now we'll instead use GitLab as main repository with a mirror on GitHub.
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> How does the mirroring work? It seems 99% of the dev world is using GitHub now so it's a pity to have to learn new tools if we don't have to. I'm very happy with GitHub myself and use it often.
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If you know github, then gitlab will not be that different. (though yes, 
the menu structure is not 1 to 1 => so a few minutes to find some of the 
features)

First of all, most work on the code is done in git => on your PC. So 
that is identical.

Issue trackers are similar. gitlab offers a few things on top (like 
issue boards, a configurable view of issues grouped by some criteria)

"pull requests" are called "merge request", otherwise similar too.

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Apparently (according to Michael) github credentials can even be used 
for login ...