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feat(tools/gitlab): add tracker + forge bridge for GitLab-hosted projects

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
gitlab, python
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting tools/github/ and its issue-template.md to understand the existing forge and tracker bridge and field-schema conventions. Use the GitLab REST API reference and the python-gitlab reference to scope equivalent issue, MR, metadata, boards, CI, and advisory capabilities; done means tools/gitlab/ provides the requested read/write parity.

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Description

capability:platform enhancement family:tools good first issue source control system

Add tools/gitlab/ as a forge + tracker bridge analogous to tools/github/. GitLab is the dominant non-GitHub forge in our adopter universe.

Capabilities to provide (mirror the GitHub bridge):

  • Issue read/write: issue view/list, issue create/edit/close, issue comment
  • MR read/write: mr view/list, mr create/edit/merge, mr comment, mr review
  • Project metadata: labels, milestones, members
  • Project boards (boards / iterations) read/write
  • CI: pipelines read for status checks
  • Security advisories: GitLab has its own advisory database — useful for the security-* skill family

Why: GitLab hosts Python core infra and several PEP-related repos (gitlab.com/python-org), GNOME (gitlab.gnome.org — all of GNOME), Debian Salsa (salsa.debian.org — all of Debian packaging), KDE (invent.kde.org), Freedesktop (gitlab.freedesktop.org — Mesa, X.org, Wayland, NetworkManager, PipeWire), Inkscape, GIMP, Xfce, Buildroot, the Linux Foundation Energy projects, and the entire self-hosted-enterprise forge market. A project-agnostic framework that can't speak GitLab forecloses a substantial slice of OSS.

Reference:

  • GitLab REST API: https://docs.gitlab.com/api/api_resources/
  • Existing GitHub bridge to mirror: tools/github/ — the issue-body field-schema pattern in issue-template.md is the convention to follow for GitLab issue templates
  • The python-gitlab library is a clean reference impl
  • For project-board parity, GitLab's "Boards" + "Iterations" are the analogue of GitHub Projects
Dominant language
Python
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113
Forks
95
Avg merge
10h 52m
Merged PRs (30d)
339

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