I did a bit more investigation after sending that email and it seems that the data really has gone forever.
On 5 July 2017 at 23:23, Menno Smits <menno.sm...@canonical.com> wrote: > I *believe* a database dump of the reviewboard site was kept but the site > was taken down as it wasn't being used. > > Juju QA folks may be able to shed more light. > > On 25 May 2017 at 01:44, roger peppe <roger.pe...@canonical.com> wrote: >> >> Despite my plea (quoted below) it seems that our reviewboard site is >> not available any more, so an important set of contextual information >> on the Juju code base has disappeared. Our commit comments are often >> not that useful. I have often found the review comments invaluable for >> determining the status of a feature and whether a given piece of code >> is deliberate or a bug, particularly when refactoring. >> >> It's somewhat ironic that the earlier codereview.appspot.com reviews >> are still available while the later ones have gone. >> >> For the record, the codereview period (still available) spans 1303 >> reviews from 2012-04-19 to 2014-06-03 and the reviewboard period spans >> at least 3696 reviews from 2014-06-03 to 2017-02-08. >> >> Is it possible that this information could be retrieved and made >> available somewhere again? Or has it gone forever? >> >> with crossed fingers, >> rog. >> >> On 24 October 2016 at 22:41, roger peppe <roger.pe...@canonical.com> >> wrote: >> > On 24 October 2016 at 22:22, Menno Smits <menno.sm...@canonical.com> >> > wrote: >> >> On 25 October 2016 at 10:17, Horacio Duran >> >> <horacio.du...@canonical.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Shouldn't we leave it for historic purposes? >> >>> >> >> >> >> Will it really get used? My bet is that the project's commit history >> >> will be >> >> enough. >> > >> > I think that review history is crucial for context on historic >> > code decisions - I often look into a review to see why a >> > particular piece of code is the way it is (including old >> > Juju codereview reviews). >> > >> > It would be unfortunate to lose them in my view. >> > >> > cheers, >> > rog. >> >> -- >> Juju-dev mailing list >> Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev > > -- Juju-dev mailing list Juju-dev@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju-dev
