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switch to main gerrit server instead of using the replica

Description

switch to main gerrit server instead of using the replica

To avoid downtime for codesearch during upcoming maintenance
downtime of gerrit-replica.wikimedia.org suggesting to switch
it to use the main gerrit.wikimedia.org instead, unless there
are concerns with that.

Patch created with:

sed -i 's/gerrit-replica/gerrit/g' test_write_config.py write_config.py

The current backend of gerrit.wikimedia.org, gerrit1003, is also
new hardware and we just switched to that last week as the production
server, replacing a 4 year old server, gerrit1001.

The reason that we put some clients directly on gerrit-replica
back in the days was to reduce load on the main server but as far
as I can tell this has been fixed in a previous Gerrit version
even regardless of the new hardware and hasn't been an issue for a while.

But the price we pay for it is that it creates real downtime just
because a once-passive host goes down.

For this and other reasons mentioned on wikitech-l today, I also
suggest to just leave it like this forever.

But this can be seen as a slightly separate discussion.

Let me know what you think of it both with or without a revert after the
maintenance on the replica is over.

Bug: T336710
Change-Id: I6f4b8a4e91966b7427264c96f7bbef54ecbc6cb9

Details

Provenance
DzahnAuthored on May 15 2023, 10:27 PM
Parents
rLCSH252312c44648: frontend: Fix sidebar limiting to 50% on wide viewports
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References
refs/changes/25/919925/3
ChangeId
I6f4b8a4e91966b7427264c96f7bbef54ecbc6cb9