GitLab packaging progress and discussion about deployment on fedorahosted

[Axilleas Pipinellis]

Hi all! (Cross post of ruby-sig)

Long time no see, so I thought I dropped a line of what is achieved so 
far about this project. GSoC comes to an end later this month but that 
doesn't mean the effort is over. I will continue to work on this until 
it gets officially in Fedora.

I managed to deploy GitLab on a Fedora 19 machine using only installed 
packaged gems. Below you will find some more info as well as the url of 
the testing environment. Please use/test it and report any issues here 
[0]. If anyone needs an admin account for further testing just let me 
know. Just bare in mind that you might see some 500 errors as I will be 
trying some things :)

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OS: Fedora 19
Temp deploy: https://fedora.axilleas.me
Enviromnent: using only installed packaged gems either from the official 
repos or my custom one [1].
Gemfile diffs: [2] and [3]
Systemd services: Running without using bundler [4]
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There are a lot to be done yet but that's a start.

TODO
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*Short term
- Write gitlab.spec that will glue all the dependencies together


*Long term
- Commit as many specs as  possible to BZ.
- GitLab forks: one option is to patch upstream with GitLab's changes. 
second but rather avoided is to to ask FPC for an exception and package 
the forks as they are.
- Coordinate efforts with Debian ruby team (I already contacted them) [5]
- Deploy on rawhide: when GitLab supports rails 4. That depends on many 
dependencies gems as well.

*Longer term
- port to EPEL


[0] https://github.com/axilleas/gsoc/issues
[1] http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/axilleas/gitlab/fedora-19/
[2] https://github.com/axilleas/gsoc/blob/master/Gemfile.diff
[3] https://github.com/axilleas/gsoc/blob/master/Gemfile.lock.diff
[4] https://github.com/axilleas/gsoc/tree/master/systemd
[5] http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Regarding-gitlab-td2843993.html

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