UI to Import GitHub Organizations into GitLab Groups
Problem to solve
When a large organization migrates from GitHub to GitLab, there is currently no awareness in GitLab of which projects belong to the organization and there is no way to automatically create a GitLab group from a GitHub organization.
The user has to first manually create a GitLab organization and then import desired projects into it. This makes it harder for someone to manage a large migration and also introduces manual steps that have to be completed before the import.
This frontend issue will be used to produce the UX and UI for this feature.
Proposed solution
Allow the users to choose to automatically create a GitLab group from a GitHub organization.
GitHub Importer would have the ability to show all the GitHub Organizations that the user has (admin) access to. The user would be able to select an Org or a few orgs and initiate a migration from GitHub into GitLab.
The import process would create a new Group including basic attributes, such as Name, Description, and Avatar.
WIP design explorations documented in Figma →
Not in scope of this issue (will be implemented in future iterations)
- users
- projects
Proposed solution - old
Allow the users to choose to automatically create a GitLab group from a GitHub organization and then import all the projects that belong to that Org into the newly created Group.
GitHub Importer would have the ability to show all the GitHub Organizations that the user has (admin) access to. The user would be able to select an Org and some (or all) Projects in it and initiate a migration from GitHub into GitLab.
The import process would create a new Group(s) including basic attributes, such as Name, Description, and Avatar. The user would then be able to import desired Projects into this Group.
Note: GitHub Organizations only support one level (no nesting).
Iterations
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👣 backend API to get all available orgs for the user - #348756 (closed) -
👣 backend API to import just the org (name and description) into a new group - #348755 -
👣 frontend UI to import the org into a new group - THIS ISSUE -
👣 backend Import all the projects in that org - #348757 -
👣 backend Import the avatar - #348758