Thanks to Valhalla and other members of LIFO, a bunch of fine Debian folks have convened in Laveno, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, for a nice weekend of relaxing and sprinting on various topics, a SnowCamp.
As a starter, and on request from Valhalla, please enjoy an attempt at a group picture (unfortunately, missing a few people). Yes, the sun even showed itself for a few moments today!
As for today’s activities… I’ve cheated a bit by doing stuff after sending yesterday’s report and before sleep: I reviewed some of Stefano’s dc18 pull requests; I also fixed papered over the debexpo uscan bug.
After keeping eyes closed for a few hours, the day was then spent tickling the python-gitlab module, packaged by Federico, in an attempt to resolve https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=890594 in a generic way.
The features I intend to implement are mostly inspired from jcowgill’s multimedia-cli:
- per-team yaml configuration of “expected project state” (access level, hooks and other integrations, enablement of issues, merge requests, CI, …)
- new repository creation (according to a team config or a personal config, e.g. for
collab-mainthe Debian group) - audit of project configurations
- mass-configuration changes for projects
There could also be some use for bits of group management, e.g. to handle the access control of the DebConf group and its subgroups, although I hear Ganneff prefers shell scripts.
My personal end goal is to (finally) do the 3D printer team repository migration, but e.g. the Python team would like to update configuration of all repos to use the new KGB hook instead of irker, so some generic interest in the tool exists.
As the tool has a few dependencies (because I really have better things to do than reimplement another wrapper over the GitLab API) I’m not convinced devscripts is the right place for it to live… We’ll see when I have something that does more than print a list of projects to show!
In the meantime, I have the feeling Stefano has lined up a new batch of DebConf website pull requests for me, so I guess that’s what I’m eating for breakfast “tomorrow”… Stay tuned!
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