[vdsm] gerrit upgrade

[Itamar Heim]

On 01/13/2014 11:37 AM, Itamar Heim wrote:
> gerrit upgrade will happen in 10-15 minutes. only a short service
> interruption is expected (but look and feel will change)

upgrade done now (backup of the instance took more than expected).

>
>
> 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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