Paladox, Thank you for all you do with Releng and Gerrit. I’m glad I get to work with you on other projects aswell!
Releng Team, keep up the great work! -- Devin “Zppix” CCENT Volunteer Wikimedia Developer Africa Wikimedia Developers Member and Mentor Volunteer Mozilla Support Team Member (SUMO) Quora.com Partner Program Member enwp.org/User:Zppix **Note: I do not work for Wikimedia Foundation, or any of its chapters. I also do not work for Mozilla, or any of its projects. ** > On Apr 18, 2019, at 6:35 PM, Paladox via Wikitech-l > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
