Talk:GitLab/Policy

I think we would need another level for people who regularly do dev work and are trusted but still didn't earn the old "+2 rights" (which means being able to merge MRs to the main branch), btu should be able to create branches (so, run CI on their changes).

We'll be breaking the git checkout urls for all of the repositories anyway, so we can fix a lot of the naming cruft we've acquired over the years in Gerrit. We also expect to restrict top-level namespaces (see for example the mediawiki one on the policy page as one of them) for easier discovery and permissions management.

This is a placeholder thread for giving feedback on how we'll do it.

+∞

Top levels I can think of are mediawiki, operations, and wikimedia, (i.e. scrapping integration and moving the remaining contents under mediawiki/tools; moving analytics/ under wikimedia; and moving the dozens of random top-level ones into somewhere more appropriate, generally mediawiki/libs and mediawiki/services).

Whilst we're at it, renaming mediawiki/core.git to something more obvious for our main repo — mediawiki/mediawiki.git or whatever — would be particularly gratifying.