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Re: [egit-dev] [jgit-dev] Webmaster wants to get rid of Gerrit
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> On 16 Nov 2021, at 17:04, Andrey Loskutov <loskutov@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Guys,
>
> for problems / proposals regarding planned gerrit / bugzilla obsolescence, please also consider to raise your hands and comment in this document:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dFAGX2P5cKnmfppyGhTqUIt0iGAHaRXm1BW7_hVufBw/
Thanks for sharing, Andrey.
I’ve posted my comments on it.
Luca.
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> I'm must be a very seldom example of a happy gerrit/bugzilla user, but I'm not involved into gerrit internals and may miss something obvious for you.
> I guess you probably can add more valuable input about possible pitfalls / needed work etc during transition, even if the document is for Eclipse platform in general.
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> Kind regards,
> Andrey Loskutov
>
> Спасение утопающих - дело рук самих утопающих
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> https://www.eclipse.org/user/aloskutov
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>
>> Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2021 um 12:39 Uhr
>> Von: "Han-Wen Nienhuys via jgit-dev" <jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> An: "Matthias Sohn" <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "EGit developer discussion" <egit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "JGit Developers list" <jgit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Betreff: Re: [jgit-dev] Webmaster wants to get rid of Gerrit
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>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:41 PM Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> webmaster opened the issue
>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=577152
>>> since they want to get rid of Gerrit in favor of gitlab or github.
>>>
>>> I would personally prefer to continue using Gerrit for several reasons:
>>>
>>> I clearly prefer the commit-centric review style Gerrit implements over branch-centric PRs or MRs
>>> I don't want to lose all the invaluable review comments we collected during the last 12 years developing in Gerrit.
>>> Gerrit runs on JGit and we should eat our own dog food
>>> I am a Gerrit maintainer (so I am biased)
>>>
>>> What's your opinion?
>>>
>>> Options if we want to continue using Gerrit and webmaster doesn't provide it anymore:
>>>
>>> Take over the Eclipse gerrit instance on a project managed vserver at Eclipse and run it ourselves. That's how we started using Gerrit at Eclipse before the webmaster took it over.
>>> Move our repositories to a public managed Gerrit site. GerritForge signaled they would be willing to host a Gerrit instance for Eclipse.
>>
>> Google has a large interest in the health of JGit, as it is the
>> foundation of Git/Gerrit hosting at Google. We would be happy to host
>> Gerrit for JGit development. What other projects are there that need
>> Gerrit?
>>
>> Any kind of migration (be it to Gerritforge or Googlesource.com) will
>> need some planning, as we'd likely want to carry over review history,
>> which requires some metadata rewrites, and the code to do this doesn't
>> exist yet.
>>
>> --
>> Han-Wen Nienhuys - Google Munich
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