Folks,
I'm happy to announce that we now have an experimental Gitlab instance for Wine development. Many thanks to everybody who worked on setting this up, notably Arkadiusz Hiler, Derek Lesho, Jeremy Newman and Jeremy White.
You can find it at: https://gitlab.winehq.org
You should be able to register an account and start playing with it. Currently it contains projects for the main Wine tree, the WineHQ tools, and the WineHQ website. You should be able to fork any of these trees and submit merge requests.
We have added a mail gateway that will take merge requests and comments posted on Gitlab, and forward them to wine-devel, so that the full project activity will still be visible on the mailing list. Most actions can also be accomplished from the command line, with the help of tools like https://github.com/profclems/glab or https://github.com/zaquestion/lab.
There's also a wine-demo project that you can use as a playground to test sending merge requests or debug your scripts without messing up the real project. wine-demo activity is not forwarded to wine-devel, so feel free to make mistakes there.
Note that no decision has been made to switch to Gitlab yet. This is still an experiment, and if it turns out that it doesn't work for us, we'll scrap it and try something else.
That said, I do think that it has the potential to be a very nice improvement, so I'll ask everybody to give it a chance. Please try it to see if it can be made to fit with your workflow, and report what works/doesn't work for you.
I'll send a separate email to describe what I expect that the final workflow would look like.
Looking forward to your feedback...