Paladox,
Thank you for all you do with Releng and Gerrit. I’m glad I get to work with you on other
projects aswell!
Releng Team, keep up the great work!
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On Apr 18, 2019, at 6:35 PM, Paladox via Wikitech-l
<wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, with the future of Gerrit comes a bright future. Gerrit PolyGerrit has changed to
Google Germany PolyGerrit team (created in january). Upstream are planning to ramp up
development of PolyGerrit very soon. Gerrit has just had 3.0 branched within the last 2
hours! Which means that is going to be a big release. Gerrit 3.0 key features are no more
db's making it easier to both backup and fail gerrit over in case of an emergency.
Another key feature is that PolyGerrit is now the only UI in Gerrit. The old UI has been
removed!
Let's move onto 2.16.
We plan to update to Gerrit 2.16 soon [1]. With this update, it will be one of the
largest update's to have happened to Wikimedia's Gerrit! PolyGerrit's becomes
the default UI. PolyGerrit's UI has changed a lot since 2.15 [2]. PolyGerrit's UI
update also include improvements for new users, such as being guided with a screen like
[3]. The user will also be told how to update their own change through a dialog on their
change. This may improve their experience and help encourage new users to contribute!
With this email, i would like to encourage all users to try out the new ui which you can
by doing:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/?polygerrit=1 or clicking "Switch to New
UI" in the footer. Not all features are implemented like inline editing, project
dashboard, editing of project access rules and more. You will find yourself needing to
switch back to the OLD UI if you need to do any of that.
Once we switch to Gerrit 2.16, you will find your self switching virtually never
switching to the OLD UI. Upstream (google) switched off the OLD UI last year and has been
a great success!
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T200739
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699064
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699068 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699070
[3]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F28699002
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