Am 1. Februar 2017 20:34:52 MEZ schrieb Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org>: >On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:48 PM, Milian Wolff <m...@milianw.de> wrote: >> On Tuesday, January 31, 2017 7:56:52 PM CET Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 11:36 PM, René J.V. Bertin ><rjvber...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> > On Sunday January 29 2017 08:32:21 Ben Cooksley wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> >>> Hi Rene, >>> >>> > >From this point forward, communities should be moving away from >>> >> >>> >>Reviewboard to Phabricator for conducting code review. Sysadmin >will >>> >>be announcing a timeline for the shutdown of Reviewboard in the >near >>> >>future. >>> >> >>> > I hope that shutdown doesn't mean complete disconnect; it would >probably >>> > be a loss of as-yet unknown importance if all code reviews become >>> > unavailable. >>> > >>> > I'll miss ReviewBoard. Phabrithingy may be more powerful and >versatile, >>> > but RB had its advantages too which could be why it's still being >used >>> > (quite a lot, as far as I can see) and hasn't been integrated with >KDE's >>> > own IDE yet. >>> >>> It will be a complete shutdown of Reviewboard - we'll be archiving >it >>> in the event for some reason it becomes necessary to access the data >>> it stores. >> >> This is a *very* bad idea! >> >> - Quite some commits will lose some extended history from the review >comments >> - What about the not-yet-merged changes? > >There will sufficient time between now and when the shutdown is >actually actioned during which it's expected any remaining reviews can >either be finished off, or moved to Phabricator (As said in my >original mail, we'll be publishing a timeline for this - which will >have stages where no new reviews can be opened, etc) > >> >> If at all possible, please find a way to keep this site alive in a >read-only >> mode. >> >>> In most cases mailing lists should have the history of reviews in >>> their archives, so those will continue to be accessible through list >>> archives in the long run. >> >> And how do you find the corresponding mail archive thread based on a >> reviewboard URL? Will there be auto-forwarding in-place? > >There won't be any auto-forwarding - we'll be removing the subdomains >completely.
Could you please reconsider? Every fixed KWin bug report has a link to the review request where the patch is discussed. Losing this would be a huge blow to our source code and bug report history. Please leave the history of review request around. Thank you Martin