[Feature] mirroring to inria gitlab

[jbcaillau]

@j-l-s @srcansiz hi, it would be nice (and safe) to set up a gitlab mirror of our current devs on github:

• by this I mean mirroring from github towards Inria gitlab
• this is know as a pull mirror on gitlab side
• the mirror is intended just for backup, no need to have a full / two way sync
• mirroring the main branch only is fine (no other branches, no issues / discussion, no wikis...)

The official gitlab doc is here but, when I take a look at what they say, I typically only see the push option for mirrors, not the pull. This can also be set up with github CI, as explained here.

Last but not least: IIRC, @nniclausse had a look at that. (possible issue: he might have written the action in erlang 🫢) Nicolas ?

[jbcaillau]

@j-l-s @srcansiz according to @nniclausse the current gitlab edition at Inria might not allow anymore the pull option for mirroring. the case being, the solution is to resort to github CI to push onto the gitlab mirror (push triggered by push on main, e.g., should be enough).

[srcansiz]

Hi @jbcaillau,

Thanks for informing us. I will try to investigate the issue end of this week if I will have some time. I will keep this issue updated.

[jbcaillau]

@srcansiz any clue 🙂?

[j-l-s]

It seems to me that the Method 1 Github CI/CD from https://dev.to/brunorobert/github-and-gitlab-sync-44mn is the easiest way to do it. It only requires a gitlab token to access to the gitlab API. The trigger can be a push/merge to master.

Do you want to sync to the existing repo https://gitlab.inria.fr/ct or do you want to setup a clean repo (aka control-toolbox) ?

PS: the only caveat is that you will need the same code in all of your dozen of github repositories...

[jbcaillau]

@j-l-s indeed, Method 1 Github CI/CD as cited from above should do it. yes, will need to duplicate some in the repo, but CTActions is here to gather all these things.

as a first example (that we'll duplicate) it's nice if sone can sync GitHub OptimalControl.jl (main branch only) to some clone in GitLab 🙂.

[jbcaillau]

@ocots plan to vibecode that…?