title: “Gerrit Project News #10: April-May 2020” tags: news keywords: news permalink: 2020-05-29-gerrit-news-apr-may-2020.html summary: “Gerrit project news from April and May 2020.” hide_sidebar: true hide_navtoggle: true toc: true

Community Management work done

See the dedicated news post.

Cherry-picking topics

By using the same cherry-pick button on a change with a topic, it is now possible to cherry-pick the entire topic. All that's required to cherry-pick an entire topic is to specify the destination branch.

The limitations in this versions are the requirements to pick only one destination branch to all changes in the topic, and that it is not possible to cherry-pick a topic that has multiple changes in the same repository and branch.

ESC and CM elections

The Engineering Steering Committee and Community Managers elections have been completed. These were to elect members for the non-Google positions. The Google positions were also confirmed alongside. The resulting elected and Google positions, for both ESC and Community Managers, remain the same as the previous mandates.