[Labs-l] [NEW] Self-service git repository creation for tools

[Bryan Davis]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Magnus Manske
>> <magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Should existing, third-party repos be tracked in toolsadmin and/or Phabricator/Differential?
>>
>> I have (undocumented) plans to add support for editing and publishing
>> toolinfo.json compatible descriptions for each tool. When this is
>> implemented it will support connecting 3rd party hosting to each tool.
>>
>> Right now it is possible to create a Diffusion repo through the admin
>> console and then manually set it up as a mirror of an existing GitHub
>> repo through the management interface in Phabricator. Kunal managed to
>> do this with one of his tools [R1947]. Currently the configuration of
>> Phabricator itself only allows connecting to GitHub, but we have one
>> bug open to allow another external host. I expect as we talk through
>> the reasonable solutions of that issue that we will either open up to
>> a slightly larger fixed whitelist and come up with a procedure for
>> adding more, or determine that automatic external mirroring is
>> undesirable. If the answer ends up being that Wikimedia can't allow
>> their main Phabricator to connect to arbitrary 3rd party hosts to
>> mirror into Diffusion, I think someone can whip up a tool that can
>> poll, fetch and push to manage mirrors for interested tools in a
>> weekend. :)
>
> Related to this, if anyone has a Tool with an existing repository that
> is hosted in Diffusion (either directly or mirrored from Gerrit), feel
> free to open a ticket in the #Striker project asking to have it
> connected with your tool. I can manually alter the permissions on the
> Phabricator side to match what the admin console would do for a new
> repo and register it with the application's tracking database. I
> thought about making some UI for this in the app itself, but decided
> that the number of affected users was small enough that I could just
> handle it directly instead of introducing clutter.
>
> h/t to Luke081515 for bringing this topic up on irc to prompt this addendum

I just added a short how-to on using the Phabricator UI to setup a new
Diffusion repository as a mirror of a GitHub repo. Eventually I'd like
to make this native functionality in Striker [1].

I also did a deploy today that includes fixes for seven bugs [2] that
had been found since launch. Keep the bug reports & feature requests
coming!

[0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/FAQ
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143971
[2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/Deployments#2016-08-29

Bryan
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