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+title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes"
+tags: esc
+keywords: esc minutes
+permalink: 2019-11-26-esc-minutes.html
+summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on November 26th"
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+
+## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, November 26, 2019
+
+### Attendees
+
+David Pursehouse, Luca Milanesio, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Ben Rohlfs
+
+### Place/Date/Duration
+
+Online, November 26, 12:30 - 13:20 CEST
+
+### Next meeting
+
+The next meeting will be held on December 10, 12:30 CEST.
+
+## Minutes
+
+### Gerrit News Page
+
+The next issue of the project news is due to be published at the end
+of this week, November 29.
+
+There were no new items proposed during this meeting. David has already
+[uploaded a change](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/246812)
+adding items about the new project roadmap, the recent hackathon
+and user summit, and the release of 3.1.0. The update includes links to
+some changes that are not published yet; if those are not completed before
+the end of the week, the post will be amended to remove the links, so that
+it can be published on time.
+
+After publishing this issue of the news, David will create a new
+draft for the next one which is tentatively planned for the end of
+January 2020.
+
+### Gerrit Roadmap
+
+Alice has uploaded the
+[initial version of the project roadmap](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/246712)
+for review. Since this is based on the roadmap that we have already
+agreed on during previous ESC meetings, we don't need to do a detailed
+review of the contents. We will review and fix nits, and publish it
+within the next day. Any further amendments can then be done in follow-up
+changes.
+
+### Review of open design documents
+
+We briefly went over the
+[open design documents](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/q/project:homepage+status:open+dir:pages/design-docs/).
+
+* [Attention Set](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/245069):
+
+ Ben has uploaded a new version which includes many adjustments based on
+ feedback received so far, both in the review comments and face-to-face
+ during the recent hackathon. He will reach out to those that had concerns
+ to make sure they have been addressed.
+
+* [Threaded change log](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/245316):
+
+ Ben has reviewed the initial design and has asked the author to proceed
+ with adding the implementation details. We will revisit this again later.
+
+* [Pluggable authentication backend](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/246449):
+
+ Edwin has reserved time to review the design within the next week. We will
+ follow up later.
+
+* [Global ref database](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/237980):
+
+ It's not clear if this really belongs in Gerrit or should be part of JGit.
+ Luca suggested to abandon the proposal and instead start a discussion with
+ the JGit committers.
+
+* [Subchecks](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/235693):
+
+ Alice is handling this; no action needed right now.
+
+* [Permission tests](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/235929):
+
+ Alice will follow up with Han-Wen and Gal to check the status of this.
+
+### Hackathon and User Summit retrospective
+
+Everyone agreed that the hackathon and summit were very well organized.
+
+Luca received feedback from no-shows that the timing was not convenient, being
+in the week before the Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. Also having the summit
+on a weekend may mean it attracts enthusiasts, but many people might not want
+to attend a "work event" on the weekend. We will consider scheduling the next
+summit a bit earlier in the year, around October, and during the week instead
+of the weekend.
+
+We also discussed how we can better advertise the summit to get a wider range
+of attendees. So far it seems that the audience mostly consists of developers
+and admins, but not end users.
+
+### Review of issues on the ESC component
+
+We briefly went over the issues that have been added to the
+[ESC component](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/list?q=component=ESC)
+on the issue tracker.
+
+[Issue 11772 - Clarify future of change identifiers](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=11772)
+was due to be discussed face-to-face during the user summit, but we're not
+sure if that happened. Ben has asked Patrick to confirm.
