[Development] Upcoming Gerrit Upgrade

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

Please be careful! We were using 2.6 and suffered from this bug in 
gerrit relating to the cherry-pick submission strategy:

https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2094&q=cherry-pick&colspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Milestone%20Status%20Priority%20Owner%20Summary

It also seems to affect the 2.7 series as well as indicated from 
comments in that bug report. 2.8 seems to not suffer from it.

Just thought it's worth giving you a head's up about this :)

Thanks fo rall your efforts.

Sean

On 17/02/2014 09:11, Haataja Ismo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> As you might be aware, we have been working on Gerrit upgrade and we 
> now have some news.
>
> Plan is to upgrade current 2.2.1 based version to 2.7 based. Our 
> customized features, staging system for CI and one page review, are 
> refactored for 2.7 but need few days to complete. We'd like to ask 
> help for reviewing these changes and I'll get back to this later this 
> week.
>
> Target date for production deployment is 7^th March. Schedule is not 
> frozen and it must be in sync with Qt5.3 release plan to keep that 
> safe, not compromising the Qt release.
>
> Some background from development point of view shortly. Initial idea 
> was to implement all the customization as Gerrit plugins. 
> Unfortunately the plugin API doesn't offer access to core elements of 
> the Gerrit. For example allowing to add new states for staging 
> feature. So this approach failed and we decided to go old way for now, 
> customizing newer Gerrit version with patches. Knowing that work would 
> be quite challenging, we chose version 2.7 over 2.8 because 2.8 seemed 
> to be more risky having new change screen and Buck build system.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Ismo
>
> --
>
> Ismo Haataja
>
> Senior Software Specialist - Digia, Qt
>
>
>
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