I wonder if Phabricator could be used for this? See also T86639.

Yea, can we just use phab for these now? Recently i just made one (T88745) without even thinking much about it because it seemed normal to use phab for tasks.

Help me finishing T86639: Migrate Gerrit project ownership request system (+2 rights) to Phabricator during this month, and I will take this task for the next month's sprint. :)

@QChris, @demon, you are the ones maintaining https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/New_repositories/Requests. Do you want that process to be moved to Phabricator, just like we moved T86639?

To be honest, I don't really care whether it's a Wikipage or Phabricator. Wikipage is easier for me, but meh.

From what I heard, people would care much more about self-servicing than whether it's a Wikipage or not.

Not sure how @demon feels about it, but if what you have in mind with Phabricator allows to people to create repos in self-service: Yes, please switch.

If what you have in mind is not self-service, then I'd not switch. It's only cost and hardly a win, as we'd only trade a slow, manual process for another slow, manual process.

I don't really care one way or the other. I usually make repos when people pester me on IRC anyway.

Doing it via tasks in Phab won't be self-servicing right now. We still need to figure out exactly what the plan is for making repos in Phabricator when the time comes and making that way more self-servicing than what we have now is a goal I think.

So, the plan for Phabricator/Diffusion is that we have the Diffusion-Repository-Administrators team with the right permissions to create/edit repos. That group will respond to requests filed against it (per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Diffusion#Requesting_a_new_repository).

The benefits of that (in the post-Gerrit world) is that the group of people with the ability to do so increases in size AND we can add more people to that group easily as needed. It's not quite "everyone can create a repo themselves" but it's closer.

We can discuss the "everyone can create a repo themselves" idea separately, no?

In T38269#1845599, @greg wrote:

The benefits of that (in the post-Gerrit world) is that the group of people with the ability to do so increases in size

... Are you sure that's a benefit? Isn't it likely to be a repeat performance of Project-Admins?
Have we ensured that nobody can create private repositories?
Do we have guidelines on the conventions for repository naming, ACLs, etc.?

In T38269#1845931, @Krenair wrote:

Have we ensured that nobody can create private repositories?

Not off the top of my head.

Do we have guidelines on the conventions for repository naming, ACLs, etc.?

Naming yes, we'll continue to expand with needed info (see the linked wiki page above and help out :) )

So there is a group of people with the right permissions that is maintained in phabricator but we don't want people to request new repos via phabricator? Why can't we have all the advantages you listed without people having to go edit wiki for one random request while all other requests are in a task?

It's also surprising that the original request already says how wiki doesn't scale and then later the requestor himself says he doesn't care one way or another.

In T38269#1931350, @Dzahn wrote:

So there is a group of people with the right permissions that is maintained in phabricator but we don't want people to request new repos via phabricator? Why can't we have all the advantages you listed without people having to go edit wiki for one random request while all other requests are in a task?

Did you read the wiki page I linked to?

Requesting a new repository

If you would like to have a new repository created and/or imported into Diffusion, please create a task in the Diffusion-Repository-Administrators project.

Please include the following information:

The desired callsign (following the naming conventions), eg: rECNO
The desired full name, eg: extension-CentralNotice
If needed, the url to another git repo that you would like the new repository to be populated with initially

In T38269#1945993, @greg wrote:

Did you read the wiki page I linked to?

No, sorry i did not, i was still referring to the old wiki method to request a repo on wiki itself.
Looks all good, nevermind.

:)

At this point I would remove the Gerrit tag and focus on a good solution for Diffusion.

Maybe wait with deleting the Gerrit tag until Gerrit is actually shutdown and the server decom'ed.

This is basically already done with this form. But needs doc updating on mw.org. There's another task where I mentioned this but can't find it.