Hi, just a heads up that the Gerrit upgrade (see below) will begin in about an hour. (If you want to read along, coordination will happen in IRC in #wikimedia-operations)
Have fun, Christian On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 11:58:23PM +0200, Christian Aistleitner via Wikitech-l wrote: > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Hi, > > TL;DR: We will take our Gerrit instance at gerrit.wikimeda.org offline > on Saturday, 27th of June from 17:00--22:00 UTC (hopefully much > shorter) to upgrade to the latest Gerrit v3.2.2. > > (10:00--15:00 San Francisco time, and 19:00--24:00 Central > European time) > > --------------------------------- > > We're currently running Gerrit v2.15, which is no longer supported and > we will upgrade to Gerrit v3.2 on Saturday 27th of June. This new > version brings lots of improvements. The most noticeable change is > probably the UI overhaul. The (default) "old UI" gets removed and the > "new UI" has been completely revamped. It's much more modern looking > and easier to use. And it also became far more usable on mobile > phones. But the new version of course also comes with fixes and > additions around the ssh interface, and the HTTP API. > > Since this is such a big upgrade, we want to give you a chance to look > at it beforehand. You can test at > > https://gerrit-test.wikimedia.org/ > > It holds a copy of our Gerrit data as of 15th of June, and it runs the > new Gerrit v3.2.2. We'll keep tuning things there during this week, so > it might get an occasional restart. But look around and test the new > UI, the HTTP API, etc. > > If you run into issues or discover bugs, please open tickets in > Phabricator and set the Gerrit 3.x upgrade task (T254158) as parent. > > Note that this test Gerrit instance is already hooked up with our > Phabricator. If you upload / merge / abandon / etc changes with a > `Bug: Tnnnn` footer, you'll get comments on the corresponding tasks in > Gerrit. So please use our test task T775 for your experiments. > > > As everything, also this upgrade comes with a few downsides: > > * The new UI no longer works on Internet Explorer (currently ~0.02% of > Gerrit's web requests). > Microsoft's Edge browser works though. > So if you are still using Internet Explorer, please consider switching > to a different browser. > > * Users of git-review need to use at least version 1.27 (released > September 2018). Otherwise uploading changes will fail. > > * Your git should be at least version 2.2.0 (released November 2014) > to take advantage of the new, much simpler commit-msg hook. > > > Keeping my fingers crossed for a painless update, > Christian with lots of helping hands from RelEng, and SRE > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- ---- quelltextlich e.U. ---- \\ ---- Christian Aistleitner ---- Companies' registry: 360296y in Linz Christian Aistleitner Kefermarkterstrasze 6a/3 Email: [email protected] 4293 Gutau, Austria Phone: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Fax: +43 7946 / 20 5 81 Homepage: http://quelltextlich.at/ ---------------------------------------------------------------
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