Last modified: 2014-11-06 12:42:14 UTC
Hi please upgrade gerrit to 2.9. Reason because it includes a new design by default also fixes issue and also includes a new side by side diff please see full change log at https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.9.html
I don't consider "please upgrade some software to some latest version" very useful if there are not 1) very good reasons to do this 2) urgently. Your list above does not provide any good reasons.
Gerrit 2.9 includes the new change screen which is worse. That's a reason not to upgrade. Plus we're planning a Phabricator migration soon-ish. What's to gain?
Well the new design that is an option in the current version of gerrit on wikimedia is a part of the new design but they also redesigned it complete in 2.9. It also includes a new side by side diff and also Fix truncated long lines in new side-by-side diff screen.
It also has a new plugin for bugzilla.
So if it's just some new random features with questionable gain in our usecase, I will close this as WILL NOT FIX.
Since people asked for more reasons, why to not upgrade: * Search backend gets switched. And the first test I made with it some time back were not super solid. That might have changed in the meantime, and the old (=current) search system has it's warts too, but we know them, and can live with them. No hidden dangers there. * At first glance, it seems there are database schema changes. Those typically make it hard to downgrade if something goes wrong. So the upgrade would need good preparation. We cannot “just try it out”. * We'd need new plugins, since part of the functionality that was in core before got put into separate plugins. * We'd need to rebuild our bugzilla integration.
(In reply to christian from comment #6) > Since people asked for more reasons, why to not upgrade: Thanks, that's useful. None of these points applies to 2.8.x upgrades (bug 63847), correct?
