| # Import Gerrit projects across servers |
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| NoteDb was introduced 5 years ago with the promise of |
| simpifying the portability of reviews and repositories across |
| Gerrit servers and, in the future, different code-review systems. |
| The promise was that a JSON-based representation of the review |
| meta-data would have allowed to rebuild a full state and history |
| anywhere, without having to rely on a centralised DBMS. |
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| With that promise in mind, the development of the [Gerrit importer plugin](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/importer/) |
| developed by [SAP](https://sap.com) stopped at version v2.15 and |
| no more upgrades where planned. |
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| From Gerrit v2.16 up to now, the Gerrit admins were unable to |
| follow any phased-migration as they could have done with the |
| use of the importer plugin, forcing companies to go through a |
| painful release-by-release upgrade process or multi-year bing-bang |
| migration projects. |
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| Luca gives an overview of how the migration and consolidation |
| is now possible with Gerrit v3.7, describing the challenges and |
| limitations of what can be done. |
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| - [Slides](https://storage.googleapis.com/gerrit-talks/summit/2022/Import%20Gerrit%20projects%20across%20servers.pdf) |
| - [Video](https://youtu.be/Su1OpJ_s850) |
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| *[Luca Milanesio, GerritForge](../speakers.md#lmilanesio)* |
