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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
