GitLab merge request API access is not configured for hosted instance

[orhun]

Describe the issue

At Arch Linux, we are trying to integrate Weblate into the ALPM project for streamlining the translation process. We have created the Weblate project at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/alpm with a single component for now.

Our workflow will be:

GitLab push → Weblate auto-updates → translators edit in Weblate → Weblate pushes to MR branch → GitLab Merge Request

So we have created a checklist for setting this up.

However, on our infrastructure side, pushing from Weblate fails with "Could not push alpm/alpm: GitLab merge request API access for gitlab.archlinux.org is not configured". According to the docs, we need to set up the GITLAB_CREDENTIALS configuration to be able to use hosted instance and we suspect that's the reason. I couldn't find that option on our dashboard and assumed that this should be done on your side somehow...

Can you clarify if our planned workflow if compatible with Weblate and why we might be experiencing that issue? We really appreciate if you could give us some pointers on how to fix this.

cc @dvzrv @christian-heusel @klausenbusk

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

Follow the steps defined here and see the error:

Could not push alpm/alpm: GitLab merge request API access for gitlab.archlinux.org is not configured

Expected behavior

Successful sync between our GitLab project and Hosted Weblate.

Screenshots

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Exception traceback

How do you run Weblate?

weblate.org service

Weblate versions

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Weblate deploy checks

Additional context

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[nijel]

The workflow should work; we can configure the integration for you. Writing to customer care would make us look sooner into this 🙂.

In the long term, we plan to have UI GitLab integration, but this will take some time to implement; see #8296.

[orhun]

Hello @nijel, thanks for your reply. Could you help us set this up anytime soon?

Right now we are trying to push from centrally hosted weblate to our GitLab via providing the token in the push URL but it doesn't seem to work:

Our full configuration:

My understanding is that we need you send an admin the GitLab credentials (probably you) and they need to set this up for us on the hosted weblate side?

[nijel]

Please write including the credential to care@weblate.org.

[orhun]

Just sent an email