[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Gerrit upgrade complete

[Andrew Deason]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:23:00 +0000
Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 26 Oct 2009, at 15:05, Andrew Deason wrote:
> >
> > While I understand the usefulness of having this in commit messages
> > to track changes, is there any way we could get the old numbers
> > displayed in change listings? (e.g. the 'all open changes' page)
> >
> > I know what change 717 is, but change
> > I6fd5cbb924053446689c576026f9044f78ba71be is a bit harder to
> > remember. Seeing only that as the identifier for a change is pretty
> > much useless for me.
> 
> In general, changes to gerrit should be discussed over on the repo- 
> discuss list. I don't want OpenAFS to end up maintaining its own
> fork of gerrit, so we really need to work with upstream to get
> changes made there.

If it requires changing gerrit, then I think the answer to my question
was "no". I just meant, if there was a configuring switch or something.

> In this case, though, I think Shawn pretty much has a plan to kill
> off numerical change IDs.

Bah.

> The main reason for this is that when gerrit moves to git storage, the
> plan is that it will operate as a  distributed system. Change IDs
> which are particular to a single server won't allow that kind of
> distribution to occur.

Yes, the centralization of gerrit is what I thought would let them
exist. If it's moving towards something else, then okay. I may find it
annoying, but okay.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net