Thanks for further explaining it; that is good news. Just don't want to see hard work disappear (as someone who recently rm -rf 'd some important files like a newb :)).
Regards, Ryan Goulding On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Grimberg < [email protected]> wrote: > On 05/19/2017 07:47 AM, Ryan Goulding wrote: > > Right, but that really has nothing to do with abandoned patches, lest > > you are proposing to not migrate them. > > > > > > I would say we should prefer a strategy of keeping patches over shedding > > them. As someone who has worked on this project for several years, > > sometimes you try something only to realize it is going to be a *LOT* > > harder than you would expect. You have still done a good amount of > > work, and don't want to lose what you have done, even if it is no longer > > a priority. Even if you aren't going to directly use that patch again, > > you want it to reference when you pick up the particular activity > > again. Merge Conflicts look ugly but they really aren't a big deal. So > > I am on board with keeping things forever. I don't think we should ever > > get rid of work. It really shouldn't be a big deal to keep things > > kicking around. > > I'm _not_ suggesting we don't migrate the things. AFIAK _every_ change > will migrate _as_ a change. It's more a matter of what changes are still > open and visible with the default queries. Abandoning a change doesn't > mean it's destroyed, it just makes it no longer part of the status:open > query and moves it to status:abandoned > > The _only_ time Gerrit destroys a change is if it's a draft change and > then the change is deleted. It's the only time Gerrit even offers the > option for delete. Even then, all it does is remove all records of it > from the database and then tombstone the ref in the git repo. It only > actually dies out of the repo when the automatic garbage collector reaps > the tombstones. > > It's more a matter of our account re-connections I'm anticipating. I > would far rather deal with a much smaller subset of our 5000+ Gerrit > accounts if possible and the problem set is far better reduced to active > people when we start making it obvious. > > -Andy- > > -- > Andrew J Grimberg > Lead, IT Release Engineering > The Linux Foundation > >
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opendaylight.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
