First of all - thanks for putting the effort to upgrade!
Unfortunately that is the last positive sentence I'll have here. However, it is not your fault at all. It is all about expectations. And my expectations were that the UI/UX will be much more mature than the current version we use. However, my biggest expectation turned into biggest disappointment.
Things are yet more unintuitive and crazy than in the current version. Three outstanding examples on behalf of others: 1) It took me quite a long time to find a way, how to switch between patchsets. Not even mentioning I can't compare them. 2) It took me also quite a long time to find a way, how to add new comment. 3) The commit message is in width limited box, which causes most of the messages to be partially invisible and necessity to scroll. [I'm not going to say the solutions here, everybody should experience on their own...]
I assume that the slowness is just because it is testing environment and production will be faster, but just in case, I'm mentioning that too (ask for details should you need any).
I apologize for not being positive, I can imagine that being discouraging. On the other hand I can see one promise behind that: I believe this will be another kicker for faster migration to Differential & co. For the time being - do any skins exist? If yes, wouldn't it be worth it to investigate them and possibly install any instead of the default one?
Kind regards
Danny B.
---------- Původní zpráva ---------- Od: Chad Horohoe chorohoe@wikimedia.org Komu: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Development and Operations engineers (WMF only) engineering@lists.wikimedia.org Datum: 13. 7. 2016 3:19:16 Předmět: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit 2.12.2 test instance - PLEASE TEST
"Hi,
Daniel and I have been spending a lot of time in the last week preparing a smooth upgrade path for Gerrit to a new (and supported version). The migration will be coming soon but I could use your help testing things in the meantime.
https://gerrit-new.wikimedia.org/r/
The database is a snapshot from last week and the git data is up to date as of a few hours ago. Please use this opportunity to test the new installation and make sure it works for you. Make a change. Do some reviews. Do the things you usually would.
Again, this is snapshot data so: A) Don't worry about messing up the real install, and B) Don't expect any changes to persist after the migration.
If nobody identifies any major blockers, we'll go ahead and set an upgrade time for the immediate future.
Thanks so much!
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