[Engine-devel] gerrit upgrade

[Itamar Heim]

gerrit upgrade will happen in 10-15 minutes. only a short service 
interruption is expected (but look and feel will change)


On 01/05/2014 10:29 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> with gerrit 2.8 released a month ago having our fix for Configurable
> external robots.txt file (thanks juan), I'm planning to upgrade next
> monday (January 13th) to 2.8.
>
> other noteworthy changes - worth reading those with asterisk(*).
>
> gerrit 2.7[1]
> - New /a/tools URL.
>    This allows users to download the commit-msg hook via the command
>    line if the Gerrit server requires authentication globally.
>
> - Gerrit Trigger Plugin in Jenkins
>    WARNING: Upgrading to 2.7 may cause the Gerrit Trigger Plugin in
>    Jenkins to stop working. Please see the "New Stream Events global
>    capability" section below.
>
> gerrit 2.8[2]
>
> * New change screen with completely redesigned UI and fully using the
>    REST API.
>    Users can choose which one to use in their personal preferences,
>    either using the site default or explicitly choosing the old one or
>    new one.
> - Secondary indexing with Lucene and Solr.
> - Lots of new REST API endpoints.
> - New UI extension and JavaScript API for plugins.
> - New build system using Facebook’s Buck.
> - New core plugin: Download Commands.
> - Configurable external robots.txt file.
> * Labels can be configured to copy scores forward to new patch sets if
>    there is no code change.
> * Labels can be configured to copy scores forward to new patch sets for
>    trivial rebases.
> * New button to cherry-pick the change to another branch.
> * When issuing a rebase via the Web UI, the committer is now the logged
>    in user, rather than "Gerrit Code Review".
>
> Thanks,
>     Itamar
>
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.html
>
>
> [2]
> https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.8.html
>
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