[service-announce] review.opendev.org Gerrit outage and upgrade 15:00UTC November 20 to 01:00UTC November 23, 2020

[Radosław Piliszek]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 6:55 PM Clark Boylan <cboylan at sapwetik.org> wrote:
> The `git review -s` step downloads the commit hook script from the Gerrit server you are interacting with. There was some discussion that if the git 2.2.0 requirement is a problem we can probably bundle a version of the script in git review that is known to work with older git.

Ack, thanks, never realized it did this much.
On CentOS 7 I was just using git from SCL which was 2.18.
So it's easy to work around still.

> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > How can I help?
> > >   Once the upgrade is complete you'll want to confirm the basic functionality you rely on is there. We know there will be differences or missing features. Patience as we figure out how to address those on a new Gerrit installation is much appreciated. If you're interested in hacking on Java and Javascript we'd love help with the plugins necessary to address the known problems. You should be able to build this out locally without any special access. Please let us know if you are interested and we can help you bootstrap.
> >
> > Count me in if there are things to be done, might be able to spare
> > some time for Gerrit. :-)
> > We might want to port the live Zuul status reporter as well.
>
> We expect most of these sorts of features will need to become polygerrit plugins. Upstream docs on developing those can be found here: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/pg-plugin-dev.html. I've also set up a simple testing platform on my desktop using docker-compose which works pretty well. You should be able to do similar in order to test any plugin development that happens. We can coordinate off list on what that looks like if you are interested.

This week is obviously a no-go but I would be eager to coordinate.
Could you share your workflow?

-yoctozepto