Charm needed: Gitlab

Not sure if this helps or not - but I found the shell scripts and instructions here to be fairly straightforward - and I tested them through 12.04.

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq_install/blob/master/README.md

I'm sure that pulling those together into a charm along with a ruby dependency would do the trick! Let me know if I can help in any way.

Antono - Are you working on this? If not I'll consider trying to whip it up over the weekend.

https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/stable/doc/installation.md

New version, also check out their installation script, this page is basically a HOWTO for the charm!

Initial charm pushed to lp:~helio-mota/charms/precise/gitlab/trunk

Note that I had to include a step that precompiles the entire gitlab rails app even before nginx is started. If that is not done nginx returns HTTP 502 errors while waiting for rails to compile the app. The pre-compile step is somewhat long (15 minutes) on a t1.micro machine.

The hooks are based of the official install guide shared by Jorge before.

After a quick review it looks like you have an empty relation, this is not a good idea, you should at least set IP and PORT in this or remove it.

Also it looks like there are some left over items from another charm you may have used as a template inside of inc/common :
config_file_path="$install_path/configuration.php"
initdb_sql="$install_path/installation/sql/mysql/joomla.sql"

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the feedback. I have made the updates and commited the fix.

-Helio

Reviewing lp:~helio-mota/charms/precise/gitlab/trunk now.

-Juan

Hello:

Would you review the README.md file to reflect a bit more information as to the username and password needed to log on to the GitLab Web UI?

It's not obvious to me what the username should be as the form is asking for an email address yet the config.yaml file only provides an option for admin_password.

I would be happy to review the charm again once the changes above are addressed.

Thanks,

Juan

Juan,

Thank you for the feedback. I improved the README.md wording to include a "how to access gitlab" installed by the charm for the first time.

For now I've left the default admin user name that is created by gitlab's db migrations. I plan to have the admin name as a config option in near future.

-Helio

Reviewing this now.

-Juan

Approved.

Promulgated.

Nice job.

-Juan