On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ewan Mellor <ewan.mel...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: >> -----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. >
Created: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4939 --David
