Re: Switching to the GitLab bug tracker

[Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:20:03PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>On 5/4/21 10:43 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 01:16:51PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> As you might have already noticed by some other mails on the qemu-devel
>>> mailing list, we are in progress of switching our bug tracking tool from
>>> Launchpad to Gitlab. The new tracker can now be found here:
>>>
>>>  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues
>>
>> Thank you for doing this, Thomas!
>>
>>> 1) We likely won't have the possibility anymore to automatically send e-mail
>>> notifications for new bugs to the qemu-devel mailing list. If you want to
>>> get informed about new bugs, please use the notification mechanism from
>>> Gitlab instead. That means, log into your gitlab account, browse to
>>>
>>>  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
>>>
>>> and click on the bell icon at the top of the page to manage your
>>> notifications, e.g. enable notifications for "New issues" there.
>>
>> All maintainers and most regular contributors should follow the issue
>> tracker so that QEMU developers are aware of new issues. Please do this!
>>
>> An alternative mechanism is the RSS/Atom feed available by clicking the
>> "Subscribe to RSS feed" button left of the "New issue" button here:
>>
>>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues
>
>You can also subscribe to labels of interest [*] going to
>https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/labels
>
>For example in my case I subscribed to receive notifications
>only from these labels:
>
>- kind:Bug
>- Storage
>- pflash
>- Fuzzer
>- workflow:Merged

Cool feature, I also subscribed to some labels.

I was trying to assign a label, for example "Storage" to this issue:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/96

but I can't, should I have some special permission/role?

Thanks,
Stefano