tl;dr: watch out for another PSA in two weeks, at which time you'll all be invited to use
PolyGerrit, the new code review tool!
Details:
This is a follow-up to our previous
July and
October announcements about the transition from Rietveld to Gerrit. Things are progressing quickly, we're on track with our original timeline, and we expect to open up general dogfood for chromium/src.git soon.
Those prior PSAs speak well to the reasons that it is time to leave Rietveld behind and move on to better tooling. And the last few months of fishfood and dogfood usage -- by Skia, PDFium, Crashpad, Clusterfuzz, Infra, ChromeOS, V8, and many others -- have shown that PolyGerrit is nearly ready to be hammered on by the full force of the Chromium developer community. For example, we've already shown that PolyGerrit can upload, render, review, CQ, and land a 12,000-file change (a blink rebaseline), something that Rietveld can't even contemplate.
Over the next two weeks we're going to invite a few individuals and small teams to use PolyGerrit for their reviews in chromium/src. We'll also be closing out the last few bugs in our
pre-Dogfood milestone to ensure that we have things ship-shape. Then assuming all goes well, general dogfood will begin in the week of March 13th.
We look forward to beginning dogfood soon!
Aaron, on behalf of the PolyGerrit team