When we will see Gerrit 3.x on opendev.org?

[Clark Boylan]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, at 3:13 AM, Sorin Sbarnea wrote:
> I am wondering when we will be able to get our gerrit upgraded to 3.x?
> 
> I am mostly interested about the new UI changes as the old one is a bit 
> of a nightmare to use on split screens, even after hacking its css. 
> 
> How far are we from having a d-day for this?

This is a topic in our weekly meeting. I've been trying to pick up where Monty left off. I've since been able to fix some bugs in our Gerrit images as well as start communicating with Luca from GerritForge on considerations we need to make and general process planning.

Next on my todo list is to test some behavior locally in my test setup (I want to ensure the new notedb stuff isn't leaking things we don't expect to be leaked). Then we need to figure out what state review-test is in so that we can get a Gerrit 2.13 running there that mimics production and start doing upgrade testing with real data. In particular we're interested in catching any potential bugs that may exist once we've mixed in real data as well as gathering timing info so that we can plan outages.

>From our conversations with Luca I think it is likely that we may end up doing a 2.13 -> 2.16 upgrade without notedb. Then plan a secondary outage to do a notedb conversion on 2.16. Then we can do upgrades to 3.x which I believe will go much quicker. Again all of this needs testing.

Unfortunately, the last few weeks have been busy with fighting fires like the pypi issues, zuul-web performance, and zuul mergers leaking index.lock files. I'd be happy for more help. The majority of work I've done recently has been locally on my desktop which doesn't require any special privileges. Feel free to chime in during the weekly meeting or we can continue the conversation here.