[Mailman-Developers] Gitlab integration, GSOC'16

[Terri Oda]

On 2016-02-28 1:34 PM, aahan bhatt wrote:
> Please explain about the gitlab integration in layman terms. I would like
> to contribute to the project.

Gitlab integration can mean a lot of things, and we've left this 
particular project pretty open to see what people will suggest.

The tweet linked talks about moving a discussion from a mailing list to 
a bug tracker.  So imagine that you have a bunch of people discussing an 
issue on a mailing list and after a few posts someone says "hm, that 
configuration didn't work the way I expected, this sounds like a bug, 
maybe we should file it" -- we want a way to dump the whole discussion 
into a bug so when someone goes to fix it they have all the information. 
  You'd need to think a bit about privacy (were the mailing list posts 
public?  what about the bug tracker?) and relevance of information (what 
if I only want some of the posts?  what if I want to link the discussion 
but only provide a summary?) to go from the idea of "make it easier to 
file bugs using information from a mailing list discussion" to an actual 
workable interface for doing that, but that's the core of it.


If you want to understand the whole gitlab integration idea better 
beyond that one use case, try brainstorming a little bit about how the 
pieces could work together.  How could a mailing list integrate better 
with a bug tracker?  How could it integrate better with merge requests? 
  What information would people want to pass from one system to the 
other and why?

For an example you might want to take a look at idea #27 on this page: 
http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2012/03/14/mailman-brainstorm-2/