tl;dr: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/ exists now and individuals can host projects there; at the team level we're moving some RelEng projects over and will be in touch with early adopters soon; you can find a roadmap for this work at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap - read on for more details.

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Hi all,

It's been a while since my last update on WMF's implementation of GitLab, so here's another one.

When I last wrote, we were hoping to have a minimum-viable installation of GitLab by the end of June. That mostly worked out. gitlab.wikimedia.org is now live, and seeing (limited) real usage.

So can you use it? Yes, with caveats.

* Once T288162 - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T288162 - is resolved in the near future, everyone with a Wikimedia developer account should be able to sign in. Until then, use is limited to members of the WMF, WMDE, and NDA groups.

* No shared CI job runners are provided yet

* No teams just yet, only individual projects, getting ACL right is hard :)

* Your data will not be obliterated from here forward, *probably*

* We have backups even!

Can teams use it? Soon! RelEng is porting a few projects over, and then we'll get in touch with teams on the early adopter list.

Things we're thinking about:

* Shared CI runners: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287279

* ACL groups and membership: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282842

* Early adopters: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282842

The WMF has also hired two full-time serviceops folks with a GitLab focus.

Lastly, I'll note that we have a roadmap for this work, with rough timelines, here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/GitLab/Roadmap

As ever, you can follow work on this project on Phabricator:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/5057/

Feel free to reach out with any questions via mail, Phabricator, or #wikimedia-releng on Libera Chat IRC.