hi could we update gerrit to 2.9 reason because it includes a new design by default now and also includes a new side by side diff please https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.9.html see this for a full set of changes.
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it also fixes. Fix truncated long lines in new side-by-side diff screen.
This basically is the same as the Gitblit question, which you brought up a few times in the past already. See Thread:Project:Support_desk/Update_gitblit_on_wikimedia_git and especially Thread:Project:Support_desk/update_git_site#update_git_site_43416 for the answer. Apart from that the question is not related to the function of the MediaWiki software itself and so is displaced here.
Yes and also the person on that thread told me to give a reason if I ask for an upgrade which I did give a reason it fixes issues and also brings a new design by default.
Honestly: Who cares? It will be updated when it's updated - and if you post a hundred threads here: It won't change a thing. And all that still does not change anything regarding the fact that the question is not related to the function of MediaWiki and so is displaced here.
You can search other channels like places where wikimedia tech people are around and ask there, but that will most likely have exactly the same impact which this question here has: Absolutely none. That might be different, if you could actually help doing the upgrade - can you?
I'm not sure, if you are the guy who opened the bug bug 68271, but if you are, i'm wondering why. The first question after your "it fixes issues" is, are this issues related to the use cases of Wikimedia? We will see, what happens on bugzilla, so i hope, that we don't need to observe this thread AND bugzilla, it's double work, and this is really bad ;)