[openstack-dev] [infra] Gerrit downtime on May 23 for project renames

Tom Fifield tom at openstack.org
Wed May 21 22:06:44 UTC 2014


On 22/05/14 05:48, James E. Blair wrote:
> Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> writes:
>
>> May I ask, will the old names have some kind of redirect to the new names?
>
> Of course you may ask!  And it's a great question!  But sadly the answer
> is "no".  Unfortunately, Gerrit's support for renaming projects is not
> very good (which is why we need to take downtime to do it).
>
> I'm personally quite fond of stable URLs.  However, these started as an
> "experiment" so we were bound to get some things wrong (and will
> probably continue to do so) and it's better to try to fix them early.

This is a really poor outcome.

Can we delay the migration until we have some time to think about the 
communication strategy?

At the least, I'd suggest a delay for renaming neutron-specs until until 
after the peak of the Juno blueprint work is done. Say in ~3 weeks time.


Regards,

Tom




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