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+title: Gerrit Project News April-May 2019
+tags: news
+keywords: news
+permalink: 2019-05-18-gerrit-news-apr-may-2019.html
+summary: "Gerrit project news from April and May 2019."
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+---
+
+## Project Governance
+
+Edwin Kempin (Google) led an effort to define a clear governance model for the
+project, with the following goals:
+
+1. Have clear project governance rules, including a steering committee
+ for decision making.
+2. Establish a new contribution process for large/complex features that
+ requires to write a design doc first.
+3. Offer mentorships to make contributions easier and faster, and raise
+ the quality of new features.
+4. Appoint a community manager, who focuses on the health of the
+ Gerrit community and constantly improves community processes.
+
+Edwin proposed several [documentation changes](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/q/hashtag:proposal-for-better-collaboration)
+to define the new governance model. Prior to the hackathon in Munich there had been
+extensive discussion on the reviews of the changes, with concerns being raised by
+Martin Fick and Nasser Grainawi (Qualcomm). During the hackathon the proposed
+governance model was discussed face-to-face by the attendees and Nasser Grainawi
+who joined via remote dial-in.
+
+Notes from the discussion are available
+[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XPRpJo-0rwg0D5ZBiO9l00_Nqkem5Htc6vk_iddYfZ0/edit).
+
+The proposed process was unanimously accepted by all the maintainers and
+contributors present at the hackathon, despite the concerns from Qualcomm. The
+changes were then submitted after removing a blocking vote from Martin Fick. For further
+details see
+[Dave Borowitz's comment on change #223472](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/223472/4#message-36f23fee51487933d33caf677764bf348a165ee6)
+along with the review history of that change.
+
+The new documentation is published on gerrit-review.googlesource.com
+[here](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-community.html),
+and work is ongoing to update the project homepage with related information.
+
+## Engineering Steering Committee (ESC)
+
+Following acceptance of the new project governance model, Han-Wen Nienhuys
+announced that the Google-appointed members of the ESC will be Alice Kober-Sotzek,
+Ben Rohlfs, and Patrick Hiesel.
+
+A call was then made to nominate non-Google members. David Ostrovsky nominated
+Luca Milanesio (GerritForge) and David Pursehouse (CollabNet). There were no
+other nominations. The nominations from David Ostrovksy were unanimously
+accepted by all attendees at the hackathon, which included the majority of the
+non-Google maintainers.
+
+## Community Managers
+
+Han-Wen Nienhuys announced that Edwin Kempin will be the Google-appointed
+community manager, and a call was made to nominate a non-Google member.
+
+Saša Živkov (SAP) nominated Matthias Sohn (SAP), and Marco Miller (Ericsson)
+also expressed an interest in taking the role. After discussion with Edwin,
+it was decided that they would form a trio of community managers.
+
+## Hackathon in Munich
+
+From 13 to 17 May,
+[around 20 core developers and maintainers](https://twitter.com/DevilJackj/status/1129287522297810944)
+from Google, GerritForge, CollabNet, SAP, Ericsson and Axis gathered
+for a hackathon at the Google office in Munich.
+
+The major achievements during the hackathon were:
+
+* Gerrit version 3.0.0 was finalized and released. See
+ [this GerritForge blog post](https://gitenterprise.me/2019/05/20/gerrit-v3-0-is-here/)
+ for details.
+
+* The new community governance process was finalized.
+
+* The new checks plugin was integrated with GerritForge CI. See the
+ [mailing list announcement here](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/repo-discuss/rHIjzIlPzqY/zAGOaG6MAwAJ).
+
+Changes created during the hackathon can be found on gerrit-review with
+the
+[muc-2019 hashtag](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/q/hashtag:muc-2019). A more
+detailed report of the hackathon will come later.
+
+## Dave Borowitz leaves the project
+
+Shortly before the Munich hackathon Dave Borowitz
+[announced](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/repo-discuss/ySP84Q0DHsw)
+that he will leave the project to move on to another opportunity within Google.
+
+## Community Calendar
+
+Edwin Kempin created a
+[public calendar](https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=google.com_ubb1pla6ij785oqbjr61h4vdis@group.calendar.google.com)
+which will contain community events like user summits and hackathons.
+In future we will likely also create calendar entries for upcoming releases etc.
