Provide complete information when provisioning on GitLab
When provisioning a new project on GitLab, we should make sure that projects are configured to basic information.
Specifically:
- Set the group name to the formal name, e.g. "Eclipse Dash"
- Set the group's URL to the short name, e.g. "dash" -> "/eclipse/dash"
- Set the group's description to the short description and a pointer to the project's PMI page, e.g.,
Eclipse Dash produces software and content to support Eclipse Committers. Please see [Eclipse Dash](https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dash].
When creating repositories, we should also be sure to set the repository name and description at creation time (or resolve #17 (closed) as a self-serve option).
If we make progress on #42 (closed), we'll have some other things to add to the list.
Am I missing anything?
This information will need to be provided by the project team and EMO and passed to the webmaster as part of the provisioning request. Perhaps we can extend the PMI to include fields to capture this information and automatically pass it along to the webmaster as part of the provisioning request email.
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Totally agree. We should also fix group descriptive names and descriptions on https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipse/
/cc @mdelgado624
Hey @wbeaton this has no assignee - is there an action item for a team? Thx
The intention that I had with this issue was to ensure that the groups we create in GitLab for Eclipse projects consistently correctly follow our trademark guidelines and provide some connection back to the project from the group.
As of now, it appears that we do this inconsistently. e.g.
I'll update the description to include a pointer to the project's PMI page as well.
Ideally, whenever the IT creates a group on GitLab, I'd like to see the specified information included in the metadata.
So, this is a request to to ask the IT team to update their process to do these things when they create a GitLab group. As part of this, the EMO has responsibility to make sure that we provide this information.
/cc @mdelgado624
