On 11/10/2015 01:39 AM, David Pursehouse wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:03 PM James E. Blair <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Khai Do and I attended the Gerrit User Summit this weekend. It was a > very busy weekend indeed with quite a lot of activity in all areas > related to Gerrit. The following is a brief summary of items which > may be of interest to our community. > > > Slide decks for many of the presentations are online at the Summit webpage: > > https://gerrit.googlesource.com/summit/2015/+/master/index.md
<snip> > * Search by author or committer. Also, search by comment author. Is there any update on label:Code-Review<=-1,group:nova-core ? The group search support is documented, but as far as I can tell doesn't work except under very specific ldap configs. https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=3018 That would be hugely helpful. <snip> > * As noted in another recent thread by Khai, the hashtags support > (user-defined tags applied to changes) exists but depends on notedb > which is not ready for use yet (targeted for 3.0 which is probably > at least 6 months off). > > > We're looking into the possibility of enabling only enough of the notedb > to make hashtags work in 2.12. zomg yes please. This would massively open up options for triaging / prioritizing the very large backlog of reviews in OpenStack. I suspect it would be of the same order win that dashboard support was for us. <snip> > Dave Borowitz of Google spoke about work from Andy Bons on PolyGerrit, > the new Gerrit UI. > > Everyone recognizes the UI and UX challenges with Gerrit, but because > the current web interface is built on GWT, it has been difficult to > get UX specialists interested in improving it. > > Polymer is a web framework that is being used to produce a new user > interface for Gerrit. Notably, it compiles to apparently simple > static HTML files -- no more "#" needed in URLs. The current > implementation is already able to display a basic change screen, > change lists, and side-by-side diffs. The initial target of the work > is to more-or-less reproduce the "new" change screen, drop the GWT > interface, then iterate with specialists to improve the UX. This would be really incredible. The challenges in approaching improvements with the Gerrit UI do to GWT are really massive. I can't wait to see this work play out. -Sean -- Sean Dague http://dague.net __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
