> -----Original Message----- > From: David Nalley [mailto:da...@gnsa.us] > > On Jun 19, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> > wrote: > > >> [Re ReviewBoard] > >> > >> I think it's low 'cost' to try it out. If no one objects in the next > >> day or so I'll request that we get CloudStack instance in > reviewboard, > >> and we can try using it for a week or two and see if that is to our > >> liking. If there are specific problems that we find from a workflow > >> perspective that would be solved by Gerrit, we'll be in a better > place > >> to decide. > >> > >> (I see no problem with iteration here, as long as we recognize > failure > >> early on and then do something different) > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > > Can anyone comment on why it was down for so long recently? We > obviously can't tolerate downtime like that if we're going to depend on > it. I'd want to make sure that we address any stability problems > sooner rather than later. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ewan. > > > > Yes, so briefly the downtime was caused by a failed upgrade which had > DB issues. Infra was essentially trying to avoid loss of historical > data. The upgrade was from 1.5.5 to 1.6.7, which upstream considered to > be a major upgrade, and there have been lots of reports of upgrade > problems based on a brief perusal of the mailing list. So not a > stability issue per se as much as a failed upgrade.
OK, no big worries there then. These things happen. I think that we're agreed. We will try ReviewBoard first, because it's already maintained for us. If it turns out that people don't like it enough to keep it, then our next phase would be to evaluate Gerrit and Crucible and see how those go. David, please go ahead and request our section on ReviewBoard. If you know of any workflow docs that other projects are using, then would be helpful too. We'll start to use ReviewBoard for all patch acceptance as soon as it is ready and the committers have agreed a workflow. Thanks, Ewan.
