Hi all!

[please follow-up-to the openbsc@lists.osmocom.org mailing list, if
 there is any discussion, we don't want to drag it over tons of mailing
 lists in parallel]

Some weeks ago, I created https://osmocom.org/issues/5397 but it seems nobody
noticed the ticket or had any comments to it.

So let me post this as RFC here on the mailing list:

In the past, we had a gitolite/gitosis setup, which was fine in the
early days of git, but it means that people cannot easily create new
repositories, see who has permissions, and we cannot delegate ownership.
Even updating SSH keys requires manual interaction of a sysadmin like
me.

I would therefore suggest to migrate git.osmocom.org to gitea[1]

This would allow the following features:

* users can self-create any number of personal repositories (like gitlab/github)

* we can create 'organizations' along the line of reasonably independent
  osmocom member projects like op25, who can then manage their own
  repos/permissions/...

* gitea can link to redmine wiki and redmine issue trackers (rather than
  using its own built-in)

For those repositories hosted in gerrit (mainly CNI), we would still
keep git.osmocom.org a read-only mirror, like we do it right now.

For those repositories not hosted in gerrit, users/projects could then
accept merge requests in gitea. Coupling this with 3rd party
authentication via github/gitlab/etc should make it easier for the
occasional contributor to submit changes.

There is a downside, of course; A lot of repo URLs have to change. Most
of our current repositories are at git.osmocom.org/project.git while
gitea follows a git.osmocom.org/organization/project.git scheme. I'm not
sure there is any way to help to mitigate this...

Any thoughts, comments?

[1] https://gitea.io/

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