Gerrit is replacing them with something called "private changes". https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/intro-user.html#private-changes. They look equivalent to me, with slightly different syntax.
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:26 AM, John Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a problem accessing my existing drafts after a recent upgrade to > gerrit. Somehow after the upgrade, it became much more important to use > the ‘ssh’ method instead of ‘http’ in that pulldown where you see the > Download / Pull / etc. commands. In the course of resolving that problem, > I received this nugget of info: > > > The current Gerrit installation is making some changes in behavior to > how drafts behave, and as I read the documentation, draft functionality is > going away entirely soon. > > Let me follow up a little bit on that. I thought it meant the gerrit > project itself was doing away with drafts, but maybe it’s a decision about > that site that we could push back on. > > John > > > On Oct 19, 2017, at 9:34 AM, Philip Zeyliger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hey folks, > > > > This wasn't obvious for me, so I figured I'd share it. If you want to > > review your Gerrit changes on the Gerrit UI before sending e-mail to the > > community, you can run something like: > > > > git push asf-gerrit HEAD:refs/drafts/master > > > > This will give you a URL that you can browse to, and you can even run > > https://jenkins.impala.io/view/Utility/job/pre-review-test/ against it. > No > > e-mails are sent! > > > > Once you've looked it over, you can hit 'Publish' on the web UI, and, > boom, > > e-mails. > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- Philip > >
