Gerrit 2.5.4 upgrade

Dan Kenigsberg danken at redhat.com
Mon Jun 24 04:43:33 EDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:06:04PM +0300, Itamar Heim wrote:
> just to sum up the highlights of upgrade from June 9th:
> 
> - Gerrit was upgraded to 2.5.4
> 
> - new REST API
> http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.5.html#_rest_api
> 
> - Custom Dashboards
> http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.5/user-custom-dashboards.html
> 
> - the inline email are now part of gerrit (we used to run a patched 2.4
>   version with them)
> 
> - new prolog submit rules (still considering how can be best used)
> http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.5/prolog-cookbook.html
> 
> - the mirroring plugin (to github.com/oVirt) is now a plugin (Thanks
>   David)
> 
> - looking forward to gerrit 2.6 upgrade which promises "42x improvement
>   on git clone and git fetch"
> 
> (I also remember it was supposed to improve copying approval flags
> on rebase, but couldn't find the reference).

I like most of the improvements in this upgrade (particularly the quick
version selection in side-by-side view, dependencies remembered after
submit) but it's time to rant about

 Issue 1814:    Column-order "code-review/verified" different in list
 and detail-view

which would be fixed only in 2.8 :-(



More information about the Arch mailing list