Following GNOME, Freedesktop.org migrates to GitLab
After GNOME migrated the infrastructure code to GitLab last month, Freedesktop.org followed suit and announced that the migration was completed.
Freedesktop.org was founded in March 2000 by Red Hat’s Havoc Pennington, called initially “XDesktopGroup,” and is dedicated to interoperability and underlying technology sharing between Linux and other desktop environments for X-window systems on Unix-like systems. With development, today’s Freedesktop.org has become the host of many open source graphics development projects, including The kernel DRM tree, Mesa, Wayland, X.Org and more.
As for the reasons for the migration, Daniel Stone from the Freedesktop.org team said that maintaining so many different projects is becoming a burden, and it is even challenging to enable new features and workflows for these projects. To improve their workflow, they began to consider migrating and consolidating infrastructure. When migrating code to GitLab last year at GNOME, Freedesktop.org also evaluated GitLab, and the conclusion was that although GitLab’s code review was better, its issue tracking (similar to GitHub) doesn’t meet their needs. In the discussion that followed, GitLab improved from 8.x to 9.x, and the issue tracking was greatly enhanced. As a result, Freedesktop.org supported the official migration of GNOME and completed its migration with the help of GitLab.
