GitLab

Let's have a tracker bug for issues that are affecting us and are GitLab upstream.

Blockers

The following issues are ordered by time critical.

• Mostly at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/35287
• User ID not present in GitLab Shell, preventing translation user checking - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/24945. There is an issue that the fix evaluated the wrong field. Expected actual fix is planned for GitLab 10.2.
• Allow fast forward merge option in the UI - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/20076. Part was completed but seems it's missing the actual rebase before merging. Update: We agreed on having it for GitLab 10.4, together with few of our projects migrating.
• Preserve comments in MR discussions after git push --force the branch in the MR - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/31847. Update: Expected fix in GitLab 10.3.
• Ability to merge duplicated issues. It was https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26372, however it's missing a richer UI experience. Filed https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/39751 for the missing UI/UX of duplicates handling. Update: We agreed this will be an ongoing effort.
• External users cannot create forks, preventing external contributions https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues/18, upstream: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/15173. I have the feeling this might be us missing something.

Non Blockers

The following issues are ordered by impact.

Major

• Figure out a workflow for merge requests that needs modifications to be done by the maintainer - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/39756
• Diffs bigger than 100kb cannot be reviewed - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30061#note_53197730
• Dependencies between issues https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues/17, upstream: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4058. Seems this one is going to be difficult to become free software.

Medium

• Identifying our instance as official GNOME is difficult with the new navigation https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Infrastructure/issues/19.
• If we are going to use the description to put related issues to be tracked as a workaround for not having built-in support for "relation between issues", we might need to have a way to remove all the "User changed the description" meta messages or collapse them.
• And, not, or operands for search https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27747.
• Stock responses for comments (like need backtrace, etc.). Tracked in issue #33, and upstream: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14796
• Allow permissions for wiki separated from developer permission - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19798
• Have a good workflow for translators, it can involve labels that scale well (for having a label per language without cluttering much the UI) - upstream for scalability of labels: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/21902
• Add "filter by name" for group labels, similar to what we have per project - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27031
• Not convenient way to review commit messages - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38602

Minor

• Project names cannot contain '+'. Guess which project is at fault :) - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/40838
• Ability to merge only part of the merge request - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/36913
• Internal error when editing a issue description with task list - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38639
• Markdown generation jumps some lines - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/33770

Nice to have

• CI for every commit instead of just last commit - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13187