Phabricator: All repositories registered - upcoming workflow changes

[Francis Herne]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:09:34 +1300
Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As a starting point: keeping the software itself running is a
> non-starting option from my perspective. It's going to be shutdown.
> This is purely to reduce the amount of maintenance effort we have to
> expend in keeping our systems running.
> 
> There is an enormous amount of software and other systems deployed on
> our infrastructure, and the value of continuing to maintain software,
> including associated security updates, major upgrades to ensure we're
> able to continue running it on modern distributions, etc for something
> which is no longer in active use is questionable at best. Bitrot and
> decay is almost guaranteed to erode the value of it as a historical
> archive in the long run in any case.
> 
> For those who dismiss decay as an issue - problems with previous
> Reviewboard upgrades not taking cleanly have resulted in some reviews
> being damaged, causing their diffs to become unavailable. These sorts
> of problems do happen.
> 
> Whether some kind of read only archive is retained is another topic
> altogether.
> 
> Reviewboard has a WebAPI which should be usable by anyone interested
> to extract all the information regarding reviews, including their
> comments and the diff itself. This could be used to create a static
> snapshot of each review.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the response, I can certainly understand why you want to get
rid of ReviewBoard itself, but I do think it's essential to preserve
the content in some usable form. The API you mention does look useful, 
I'll try playing with it at the weekend.

-Francis