[OpenStack-Infra] Moving a project to OpenStack Gerrit

Sandro Mathys sandro at midokura.com
Fri Dec 4 08:46:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2015-11-30 16:46:33 +0900 (+0900), Sandro Mathys wrote:
> [...]
>> Is it maybe possible to mirror the gerrit repo to our GitHub repo
>> in addition to the other two mirrors (git.openstack.org and
>> openstack/midonet on GitHub)?
>
> Our Gerrit configuration depends on replication targets having
> matching namespaces, hence the GitHub organization on a Git replica
> is determined by the part of the repository name before the / in
> Gerrit. It might be *technically* possible to remap this for a
> specific repository with a custom destination, but every distinct
> replication destination comes at a performance cost and altering the
> replication config also implies a Gerrit outage since it only
> rereads it when the daemon starts. All that is to say, I'm sorry but
> it's also not something we're going to support.

Got it, thanks.

Also, it isn't possible to somehow import open review from GerritHub,
is it? i.e. we have to either merge them all before the migration,
while not opening any new ones, or re-create them in OpenStack gerrit,
if we don't want to lose them, right?

Thanks,
Sandro



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