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Allow more contributors to propose changes to our GitLab configuration

Currently our gitlab-config.git repo is only accessible to sysadmins.

IMO at least committers-team should be allowed to clone, and propose MRs against, that repo. This would address a number of problems:

  • RMs could open MRs for group milestones changes they have to do (see tails@b170e12805484432786e528b0d36580cc4f67c8f).
  • Committers could propose new group labels: in the last few days, 2 tails/tails project labels were created (because committers are allowed to do that, but they can't edit group labels) while these should really have been group labels.
  • When a team onboards a new member or offboards a previous member, perhaps they could send a MR for the corresponding GitLab group membership change.
  • Committers could propose new projects under the tails/ namespace, ensuring our common project settings & permission model are applied.

I propose we:

  • migrate gitlab-config.git to GitLab
  • allow committers to clone that repo and push to non-protected branches
  • document how to propose changes to our GitLab config

I volunteer to do all this once we agree on something.

Edited by intrigeri