(this overview is not 100% final and might evolve as we receive more comments) To read more about the motivation to migrate away from JIRA and what we aim to improve for users, see: https://lab.civicrm.org/infrastructure/ops/wikis/gitlab-roadmap tl;dr, the Core Team is planning to move off JIRA: * We will keep pull-requests on Github * We will not require to open an issue for a pull-request * Will require enforcing the PR template more strictly * Having clear commit messages * Nonetheless strongly encourage to create an issue early on, before a dev invests significant energy in a pull-request that might be rejected, and to encourage collaboration / early feedback. * Under the "Development Team" space in Gitlab, there will be multiple projects, ex: civicase, event, contribution, accounting, cloud-native, translation, etc (hopefully not more than a dozen, but we'll see). * These issues can then be referenced in commit messages. * Gitlab will fill a gap between Mattermost and Stack Exchange, where we might want to discuss improvements (or bugs without a PR), get feedback and encourage collaboration, create roadmaps, etc. * Separating project spaces will help with LeXiM, whose discussion already happens in other repositories. * It should also help to see who helps maintain various components, to be able to ping people to get feedback/review on PRs. * We can search across the projects under a group (dev-team) using labels, for example, to find open critical/blocker issues. * JIRA archives will be migrated to an archived project in Gitlab (so that we can eventually turn off the JIRA server, while keeping a searchable archive). * Around February 2018, it will no longer be possible to create a new issue in JIRA, but it will still be possible to comment or otherwise followup on existing issues. * The archives would be migrated to Gitlab towards June. * Add redirects from https://issues.civicrm.org/CRM-XXXX to the new URL in Gitlab Tasks / Roadmap: * [x] March/April 2017: Test Gitlab usability for general projects, such as CiviCamps and civicrm.org * [x] June 2017: [Officially adopt Gitlab](https://civicrm.org/blog/josh/adopting-gitlab-an-introduction) and announce moving away from Confluence * [x] July 2017 to January 2018: Get community feedback on JIRA to Gitlab migration plan * [x] January 2018: Ensure that Release Notes do not rely on JIRA (the script is parsing the git log? discussed with AGH) * [x] January 2018: [Automatically assign the correct milestone](https://lab.civicrm.org/infrastructure/ops/issues/819) (fix-version). * [x] February 2018: Implement policy that opening a JIRA issue is no longer required to submit a pull-request * Propose updates to the developer docs. * Ensure that Release Notes tools have what they need to work as expected (ex: github release milestones) * [x] ~ April 2018: remove permission to create new issues in JIRA (initial target was February 2018). * [ ] ~ March 2018: Move Extensions (EXT) to Gitlab * [ ] ~ March 2018: Move CiviVolunteer to either Gitlab or Github * [ ] ~ June 2018: Migrate the JIRA archives to an archive project in Gitlab (which means that the 1798 open issues would have to be re-triaged / moved?) * [ ] Create a static HTML version of JIRA in case any information is missing from the migration to Gitlab. * [ ] ~~Configure a redirection from issues.c.o/CRM-1234 to lab.c.o/dev/archive/1234~~ * We are not migrating the full history, so this isn't necessary. For issues that are migrated, we can post a comment with the new URL? More context: * https://lab.civicrm.org/infrastructure/ops/wikis/jira-to-gitlab-migration * https://lab.civicrm.org/infrastructure/ops/wikis/gitlab-roadmap