lost reviews

[roger peppe]

I did a bit more investigation after sending that email
and it seems that the data really has gone forever.

On 5 July 2017 at 23:23, Menno Smits <menno.smits at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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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