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<<Include(Salsa/support)>>
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To get support join us at #alioth@oftc, create an issue in our [[https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/support|support tracker]] or send a mail to salsa-admin@debian.org. = Users =
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= Users: Login and Registration = Register an account at https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in#register-pane
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 * [[DebianDeveloper|Debian Developers]] can login with their Debian email address
  * you need to use your official Debian email address in order to gain specific permissions for Debian Developers
  * Use password recovery on https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in to get a password for your account. Please don't use your Debian password. Salsa has its own password database.
== Unused accounts for DD before May 2020 ==
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 * everyone else can register an account with an implicitly added suffix {{{-guest}}}. There is a a self service webfrontend for doing so at https://signup.salsa.debian.org/ Before May 2020 all Debian Developers had accounts created for them using their Debian user name.
Accounts that had never been used and never had a password set are deactivated.
Those accounts can only be used after being activated properly.
Please use any of the [[Salsa/Doc#Support|support channels]].
After being reactivated a new password can be set via the [[https://salsa.debian.org/users/password/new|password reset]].
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= Namespace concepts (Users, Teams) =

== Debian Developers ==

Debian Developers get synced every 6 hours from LDAP and retain their Debian login as salsa username.

== External Users ==

To avoid clash with the Debian LDAP Usernames, external users get a suffix of -guest to their username.

== Groups ==
= Groups =
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The `debian` group is for CollaborativeMaintenance (the old `collab-maint` on [[Alioth]]). The group is accessible to all Debian developers by default, who are automatically added with `master` access levels. == Collaborative Maintenance: "Debian" group ==
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External users need to request access to a Debian developer they know, or their sponsor. Access should be granted to single projects and not the whole Debian group. The `debian` group is for CollaborativeMaintenance (the old `collab-maint` on [[Alioth]]). The group is accessible to all Debian developers by default, who are automatically added with `Maintainer` access levels.
Direct commits to repositories in the Debian group by any Debian developer are implicitly welcome. No pre-commit coordination (e.g. merge-request or mail) is expected.
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== Canonical URLS == External users (non-Debian Developers) need to request write access to repositories inside `debian` group from a Debian developer they know, or their sponsor. Access should be granted to single projects and not the whole Debian group.

Projects under `debian` group cannot be transferred or deleted by anyone except Salsa administrators. In case you need to delete a project or have it transferred out into other namespaces, please contact Salsa administrators via support channel. See [[#Support]] section for contact information.

== Canonical URLs ==
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 * '''alice''' for DD Alice Developer <alice@debian.org>
 * '''bob-guest''' for non-DD Bob Coder <bobc@
example.com>
 * '''alice''' for a salsa user Alice Developer <alice@example.com>
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KGB supports gitlab webhooks. To use the kgb instances provided by dam, tincho, and gregoa from salsa, set a webhook in your project: KGB supports gitlab webhooks. To use the kgb instances provided by dam, tina, and gregoa from salsa, set a webhook in your project:
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-> integrations" and add a URL (see below), then click save. No secret Webhooks" and add a URL (see below), then click save. No secret
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Code: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/webhook. Code: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/salsa-webhook.
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For information about the shared runners, refer to the original salsa announcement: Salsa provides [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/runners/#shared-specific-and-group-runners|shared runners]] for all projects to use.
All jobs without more specific tags run within a privileged Docker container on one-time-use VM.
Outbound connections from the shared runner VMs are limited to http & https.
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Bastian (waldi) and Alexander (formorer) added two shared runners, one
running on the Google Platform, one on Azure to allow experiments with
gitlab-ci. Both runners use docker to provide images. You can use
every image available in the official docker registry. If you
don't choose an image it defaults to debian:9. We are still
looking for some offical sponsors of runners, please contact us at
salsa-admin@debian.org if you want to sponsor one.
You may also add group runners for your group or specific runners and configure them for your project.
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You may also add specific runners and configure them for your project, here is a list of the runners that are currently available:

||<tablestyle="border: 1">'''Runner Name'''||'''Maintainer'''||'''Purpose'''||
||chuchi ||stapelberg || TODO ||


= Running Continuous Integration (CI) tests =

Gitlab provides very flexible and full featured CI functionality built in. Using [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/|simple YAML files]], the Gitlab CI setup will run the scripts in ''.gitlab-ci.yml'' in the specified Docker image, and report the results with a full log. This can also be used to build and deploy static websites using "Gitlab Pages", and more.

 1. In your project's "''CI/CD Settings''" (e.g. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fdroidserver/settings/ci_cd), set "''Custom CI config path''" to ''debian/gitlab-ci.yml''
 2. Create ''debian/gitlab-ci.yml'' and commit it to your project's ''master'' branch
 3. One approach is using the following pipeline https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/ which aims to be useful for the most of packages. Covering, gbp, autopkgtest, reprotest, piuparts and lintian.
 4. Another way is using the following approach for an automated ''git-buildpackage'' setup, use the [[https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/ci-image-git-buildpackage|ci-image-git-buildpackage]] Docker image that is in development. For example, for a standard ''git-buildpackage'' run with ''lintian'', then ''autopkgtest'':

{{{#!highlight yaml
image: registry.gitlab.com/eighthave/ci-image-git-buildpackage:latest

build:
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - "*.deb"
    expire_in: 1 day
  script:
    - gitlab-ci-git-buildpackage-all
}}}

If you want the build result to be posted to an apt repo, then use the ''aptly'' script. It'll be posted to an unsigned repo on pages.debian.net. For example, https://salsa.debian.org/foo/bar will be posted to https://foo.pages.debian.net/bar.

{{{#!highlight yaml
image: registry.gitlab.com/eighthave/ci-image-git-buildpackage:latest

pages:
  stage: deploy
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - public
  script:
    - gitlab-ci-git-buildpackage-all
    - gitlab-ci-aptly
}}}

It is also possible to run each step manually or even split them into separate GitLab CI "Jobs":

{{{#!highlight yaml
image: registry.gitlab.com/eighthave/ci-image-git-buildpackage:latest

pages:
  stage: deploy
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - public
  script:
    - gitlab-ci-enable-experimental
    - gitlab-ci-git-buildpackage
    - gitlab-ci-lintian
    - gitlab-ci-autopkgtest
    - gitlab-ci-aptly
}}}


There is a more basic setup based on building with `dpkg-buildpackage` as documented on the Gitlab blog: [[https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/12/automated-debian-package-build-with-gitlab-ci/|Automated Debian Package Build with GitLab CI]]
Configuration files and tools are maintained by the [[Teams/SalsaCI|SalsaCI team]]
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See [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/pages/|the official documentation]] for a details. See [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/project/pages/|the official documentation]] for details. Note that hosting pages on arbitrary domains — whilst [[https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/getting_started_part_three.html|supported by upstream]] — is not supported on Salsa due to lack of bandwidth within [[Teams/DSA|DSA]] to support that feature (see [[https://rt.debian.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7045|RT #7045]]).

[[ChrisLamb]] has created a number of [[https://lamby.pages.debian.net/salsa-ribbons/||Github-esque "fork me on Salsa" image ribbons]] that you can add to your site.
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'''We mean that. Really.''' Be nice to the server. At some point in the future we hope to add some dedicated Runners servers - Sponsors welcome! ;) '''We mean that. Really.''' Be nice to the server. ;)
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* if you want to know if a project exists, access the project by name, authenticated, if you get a 404 then it doesn't exists.
* do not search for getting an id. If you need the id, access the project by name and use path-encoding https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/#namespaced-path-encoding
* do not request all projects in a group unless you really have. If you really have to get the list, for i.e. looping, use simple=true (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/groups.html#list-a-group-s-projects).
* Implement proper pagination, please do not just requests a few hundreds elements per page
* if you use a lib, ensure the lib does implement the api properly
* do not run extensive jobs too often
* please consider to use vcswatch or other data gathering projects
* do not regulary poll things
* if in doubt, talk to us before you code and talk to use before you do your code into production
 * if you want to know if a project exists, access the project by name, authenticated, if you get a 404 then it doesn't exists.
 * do not search for getting an id. If you need the id, access the project by name and use path-encoding https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/#namespaced-path-encoding
 * do not request all projects in a group unless you really have. If you really have to get the list, for i.e. looping, use simple=true (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/groups.html#list-a-group-s-projects).
 * Implement proper pagination, please do not just requests a few hundreds elements per page
 * set an `User-Agent` header with information about the project; don't make requests with generic user agent headers
 *
if you use a lib, ensure the lib does implement the api properly
 * do not run extensive jobs too often
 * please consider to use vcswatch or other data gathering projects
 * do not regularly poll things
 * if in doubt, talk to us before you code and talk to us before you put your code into production

= SSH Host Keys =

When connecting to Salsa to fetch or push a Git repo for the first time, it is essential to verify host's `ssh` keys. The keys for Salsa have been published as SSHFP DNS records as well as in the Debian [[https://db.debian.org/debian_known_hosts|known_hosts]] file. This is a one time operation. From now on ssh will trust the keys in the local `known_hosts` file.

Salsa Documentation

Salsa is a collaborative development platform within Debian.

Support

In case you encounter any problems with Salsa, to get support you may want to join us:

... they may help you.

Users

Register an account at https://salsa.debian.org/users/sign_in#register-pane

Unused accounts for DD before May 2020

Before May 2020 all Debian Developers had accounts created for them using their Debian user name. Accounts that had never been used and never had a password set are deactivated. Those accounts can only be used after being activated properly. Please use any of the support channels. After being reactivated a new password can be set via the password reset.

Groups

Users and Group share the same namespace. To prevent clashes with usernames we enforce groups to a '-team' suffix, with the exception being the 'Debian' group, of which all Debian Developers are members.

To create a group, log in and go to the team registration page. There is also a link to it from the registration page: if you're not logged in yet, you will be asked to do so and be redirected afterwards.

Collaborative Maintenance: "Debian" group

The debian group is for CollaborativeMaintenance (the old collab-maint on Alioth). The group is accessible to all Debian developers by default, who are automatically added with Maintainer access levels. Direct commits to repositories in the Debian group by any Debian developer are implicitly welcome. No pre-commit coordination (e.g. merge-request or mail) is expected.

External users (non-Debian Developers) need to request write access to repositories inside debian group from a Debian developer they know, or their sponsor. Access should be granted to single projects and not the whole Debian group.

Projects under debian group cannot be transferred or deleted by anyone except Salsa administrators. In case you need to delete a project or have it transferred out into other namespaces, please contact Salsa administrators via support channel. See #Support section for contact information.

Canonical URLs

The canonical URLs for use in debian/control are:

Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/<user-or-team>/<package>
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/<user-or-team>/<package>.git

where <user-or-team> is

  • alice for a salsa user Alice Developer <alice@example.com>

  • debian for the Debian/ namespace (the equivalent to collab-maint on alioth)

  • foobar-team for the Foobar Packaging Team

You can instruct git to rewrite URLs into pushable ssh URLs:

git config --global url."git@salsa.debian.org:".pushInsteadOf "https://salsa.debian.org/"

This will work for all salsa repositories checked out via https:// URLs in the present, past or future.

You can also use a shortcut for all Salsa repositories:

git config --global url."git@salsa.debian.org:".insteadOf salsa:

This way you can use a shorter commandline like this:

git clone salsa:debian/htop

Projects and Repositories

In GitLab, a project is one Git repository, and each Git repository needs a project. You can create several projects in the same namespace (user or group).

Email notifications

Every project owner can enable "email on push". To do so, go the project settings → integrations → project services → emails on push and configure the list of recipients you want to send emails to.

In particular, to forward emails to tracker.debian.org, you should add dispatch@tracker.debian.org to the recipients (or, if for some not good reason the project name is not the name of the source package, dispatch+${package}_vcs@tracker.debian.org (where ${package} is the source package name)).

Take into account that the current implementation sends a single mail per push with all commits lumped together, which makes it rather useless for any post-review workflow. This is tracked upstream at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/19901.

Information on manipulating bugs by email

GitLab has quite a lot of text commands aka "quick actions" which can be used when interacting with GitLab via email. Most things can be done via email by replying to the email notifications. There are special email addresses for creating new merge requests and issues via email.

IRC notifications

Irker

Alexander Wirt is sponsoring an Irker instance. It can be enabled with the irker integration available under Settings/Integrations/Irker. Please use the following settings:

Under recipients add a newline separated list of recipients/channels. If your channel is protected by a key, use the syntax channel-name?key=whatever omitting the leading # sign (failing to omit the # sign will result in Irker joining a channel literally named #channel-name?key=whatever and doing so making your channel key public as it is visible in the bot's /whois.
Currently only Push events are supported.

KGB

KGB supports gitlab webhooks. To use the kgb instances provided by dam, tina, and gregoa from salsa, set a webhook in your project:

http://kgb.debian.net:9418/webhook/?channel=<irc-channel-name-without-#>

For details, additional parameters, and helper scripts see the KGB documentation at https://salsa.debian.org/kgb-team/kgb/wikis/usage

Dealing with Debian BTS from commit messages

We run a webhook receiver that can modify the Debian BTS based on commit messages. If you want to use it, go to your project, "Settings → Webhooks" and add a URL (see below), then click save. No secret token is needed, and currently it only deals with push events.

Possible URLs:

https://webhook.salsa.debian.org/close/SOURCENAME
https://webhook.salsa.debian.org/tagpending/SOURCENAME

Replace SOURCENAME with the name of your source package and chose either close or tag pending, depending on the action you want to get.

You can ignore a branch or pattern, say wip/*, by providing the ignored-namespaces parameter. See the README in code for more details.

Code: https://salsa.debian.org/salsa/salsa-webhook.

Deployment keys

For automating task FIXME

Runners

Salsa provides shared runners for all projects to use. All jobs without more specific tags run within a privileged Docker container on one-time-use VM. Outbound connections from the shared runner VMs are limited to http & https.

You may also add group runners for your group or specific runners and configure them for your project.

Configuration files and tools are maintained by the SalsaCI team

Web page hosting

Gitlab offer the "Gitlab Pages" feature, and it is enabled on Salsa as https://<namespace>.pages.debian.net/<project>

This feature makes use of Gitlab-CI to generate static pages in a public directory, on every push.

See the official documentation for details. Note that hosting pages on arbitrary domains — whilst supported by upstream — is not supported on Salsa due to lack of bandwidth within DSA to support that feature (see RT #7045).

ChrisLamb has created a number of https://lamby.pages.debian.net/salsa-ribbons/ that you can add to your site.

https://<namespace>.pages.debian.net should work, thanks to Let's Encrypt new wildcard certificate support.

Quick start

  1. On your project Home, use Set up CI/CD button. (If your project is empty, select New file instead.)

  2. Choose a Gitlab CI Yaml template (Pages templates are at the end)

  3. Edit the template to suit your needs and save it
  4. Push something to the repository. You will see there is a CI Job pending
  5. Wait a few minutes for the job to run. When it's Passed you can see your pages at https://<namespace>.pages.debian.net/<project>/)

Even though we plan to support simple page generators like Jekyll or Hugo in the future, in most cases, you should content yourself with the HTML template, and generate the pages locally to push them afterward, in order to save the resources on the runner. Some templates might require commands not available on the server anyway.

We mean that. Really. Be nice to the server. ;)

important: (at least for static pages deployment) your artifacts must be stored in a directory named public/; if they are currently in a different location, use the script section in .gitlab-ci.yml to create that dir and copy the content there.

Getting Help

See the Salsa maintenance description.

Hints for previous users of Alioth

See Salsa/AliothMigration.

API Usage Best practises

  • if you want to know if a project exists, access the project by name, authenticated, if you get a 404 then it doesn't exists.
  • do not search for getting an id. If you need the id, access the project by name and use path-encoding https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/#namespaced-path-encoding

  • do not request all projects in a group unless you really have. If you really have to get the list, for i.e. looping, use simple=true (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/groups.html#list-a-group-s-projects).

  • Implement proper pagination, please do not just requests a few hundreds elements per page
  • set an User-Agent header with information about the project; don't make requests with generic user agent headers

  • if you use a lib, ensure the lib does implement the api properly
  • do not run extensive jobs too often
  • please consider to use vcswatch or other data gathering projects
  • do not regularly poll things
  • if in doubt, talk to us before you code and talk to us before you put your code into production

SSH Host Keys

When connecting to Salsa to fetch or push a Git repo for the first time, it is essential to verify host's ssh keys. The keys for Salsa have been published as SSHFP DNS records as well as in the Debian known_hosts file. This is a one time operation. From now on ssh will trust the keys in the local known_hosts file.