Add tools/gitlab/ as a forge + tracker bridge analogous to tools/github/. GitLab is the dominant non-GitHub forge in our adopter universe.
Capabilities to provide (mirror the GitHub bridge):
- Issue read/write:
issue view/list, issue create/edit/close, issue comment
- MR read/write:
mr view/list, mr create/edit/merge, mr comment, mr review
- Project metadata: labels, milestones, members
- Project boards (boards / iterations) read/write
- CI: pipelines read for status checks
- Security advisories: GitLab has its own advisory database — useful for the security-* skill family
Why: GitLab hosts Python core infra and several PEP-related repos (gitlab.com/python-org), GNOME (gitlab.gnome.org — all of GNOME), Debian Salsa (salsa.debian.org — all of Debian packaging), KDE (invent.kde.org), Freedesktop (gitlab.freedesktop.org — Mesa, X.org, Wayland, NetworkManager, PipeWire), Inkscape, GIMP, Xfce, Buildroot, the Linux Foundation Energy projects, and the entire self-hosted-enterprise forge market. A project-agnostic framework that can't speak GitLab forecloses a substantial slice of OSS.
Reference:
- GitLab REST API: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/api_resources/
- Existing GitHub bridge to mirror:
tools/github/ — the issue-body field-schema pattern in issue-template.md is the convention to follow for GitLab issue templates
- The
python-gitlab library is a clean reference impl
- For project-board parity, GitLab's "Boards" + "Iterations" are the analogue of GitHub Projects
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tools/gitlab/as a forge + tracker bridge analogous totools/github/. GitLab is the dominant non-GitHub forge in our adopter universe.Capabilities to provide (mirror the GitHub bridge):
issue view/list,issue create/edit/close,issue commentmr view/list,mr create/edit/merge,mr comment,mr reviewWhy: GitLab hosts Python core infra and several PEP-related repos (
gitlab.com/python-org), GNOME (gitlab.gnome.org — all of GNOME), Debian Salsa (salsa.debian.org — all of Debian packaging), KDE (invent.kde.org), Freedesktop (gitlab.freedesktop.org — Mesa, X.org, Wayland, NetworkManager, PipeWire), Inkscape, GIMP, Xfce, Buildroot, the Linux Foundation Energy projects, and the entire self-hosted-enterprise forge market. A project-agnostic framework that can't speak GitLab forecloses a substantial slice of OSS.Reference:
tools/github/— the issue-body field-schema pattern inissue-template.mdis the convention to follow for GitLab issue templatespython-gitlablibrary is a clean reference impl