****Q: Do we have a way planned for external people to make accounts? To report bugs and to interact with them.
****Q: Do we have a way planned for external people to make accounts? To report bugs and to interact with them.****
Answer: We tried to do it the same way as we have it in trac but we ended up having to spend a lot of time moderating out the abuse in the account.
For gitlab, accounts need to be approved manually. There is an application deployed in https://gitlab.onionize.space for people to request gitlab accounts. There are a few people at Tor periodically looking at the accounts and approving them.
****Q: Do we have a process for people who will sign up to approve accounts, and documentation for how the process works?
****Q: Do we have a process for people who will sign up to approve accounts, and documentation for how the process works?****
Answer: We had some discussions among the service admin team, and they will help with documentation. So far it is ahf, gaba, nick, arma, geko. Documentation on this process needs to be created.
The end goal is that gitlab has features like user support, which allows us to create tickets from anybody who wants to submit user support requests.
****Q: Does gitlab allow restricting users to certain functionality? Like, only modifying or commenting on tickets but not create repositories, etc.
****Q: Does gitlab allow restricting users to certain functionality? Like, only modifying or commenting on tickets but not create repositories, etc.****
Answer: It has a permission system. Also you can have security issues on the issue tracker. We don't have the same "GRP_x" approach as we had in trac, so there are some limitations.
****Q: What happens to our wiki?
****Q: What happens to our wiki?****
Answer: The wiki has been transfered and integrated. Gitlab has wikis. Specifically, the wiki will be converted to markdown, and put in a git repo. Some queries, like being able to list queries of tickets, will not be converted automatically.
****Q: Will we have url-stability?
****Q: Will we have url-stability?****
Answer: For tickets, bugs.torproject.org continue working. trac.torproject.org is read only right now and will disappear in July 2021.
****Q: Did we migrated closed tickets?
****Q: Did we migrated closed tickets?****
Answer: Yes. And all the metadata is copied in the same way. Like, the keywords we used are converted into gitlab labels.
****Q: Abuse handling. How does gitlab compare to trac in abuse handling?
****Q: Abuse handling. How does gitlab compare to trac in abuse handling?****
Answer: We don't have the same kind of finegrained access control for individual users. So new users will have access to most things.
We can't do a cypherpunks style account, because we can't stop people from changing their passwords.
