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On 11/10/2015 01:39 AM, David Pursehouse wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:03 PM James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com
> <mailto:corvus at inaugust.com>> 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

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net