lost reviews

[Menno Smits]

I *believe* a database dump of the reviewboard site was kept but the site
was taken down as it wasn't being used.

Juju QA folks may be able to shed more light.

On 25 May 2017 at 01:44, roger peppe <roger.peppe at canonical.com> wrote:

> Despite my plea (quoted below) it seems that our reviewboard site is
> not available any more, so an important set of contextual information
> on the Juju code base has disappeared. Our commit comments are often
> not that useful. I have often found the review comments invaluable for
> determining the status of a feature and whether a given piece of code
> is deliberate or a bug, particularly when refactoring.
>
> It's somewhat ironic that the earlier codereview.appspot.com reviews
> are still available while the later ones have gone.
>
> For the record, the codereview period (still available) spans 1303
> reviews from 2012-04-19 to 2014-06-03 and the reviewboard period spans
> at least 3696 reviews from 2014-06-03 to 2017-02-08.
>
> Is it possible that this information could be retrieved and made
> available somewhere again? Or has it gone forever?
>
>   with crossed fingers,
>     rog.
>
> On 24 October 2016 at 22:41, roger peppe <roger.peppe at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > On 24 October 2016 at 22:22, Menno Smits <menno.smits at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> >> On 25 October 2016 at 10:17, Horacio Duran <horacio.duran at canonical.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Shouldn't we leave it for historic purposes?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Will it really get used? My bet is that the project's commit history
> will be
> >> enough.
> >
> > I think that review history is crucial for context on historic
> > code decisions - I often look into a review to see why a
> > particular piece of code is the way it is (including old
> > Juju codereview reviews).
> >
> > It would be unfortunate to lose them in my view.
> >
> >   cheers,
> >     rog.
>
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