Gravatar for gitweb

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/20/2012 11:33 AM, Heiko W.Rupp wrote:
> Hey,
>
> gravatar.com is a service that allows you to get a little avatar of a user by passing its email address in an api call.
> Gitweb supports gravatar, which is disabled by default
>
> You can see an example for the use on fedorahosted:
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=summary
> and
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=rhq/rhq.git;a=commit;h=56faefbcf1465a45dfd74a8c1a9489f5b43224c6
>
> Enabling gravatar allows to better give the community of contributors a face.
>
> On ovirt.org, gitweb is handled by the gerrit application (and not standalone).
> To enable it one needs to put a gitweb config file into
> /home/gerrit2/review_site/etc/ as gitweb.perl
>
> and then restart gerrit (see http://gerrit.rockbox.org/r/Documentation/config-gitweb.html#_internal_managed_gitweb )
>
> When would be a good point to do the latter?

weekend i guess, though i think if gerrit is down for a few minutes any 
time of the day it should be ok as well.
my main concern is this should be documented to verify after a gerrit 
upgrade.