title: “Tentative Roadmap” permalink: roadmap.html hide_sidebar: true hide_navtoggle: true toc: false

The Gerrit roadmap is a best-effort collection of features/improvements that the ESC is aware of. The intention is to give the wider community - contributors as well as administrators and users - a sense of what they can expect to see in upcoming releases.

This is a living document, so things can change anytime. There is no ordering between features/improvements.

If you’re a contributor and you intend to work on something which is not mentioned here, please create a change and select the ESC members as reviewers. Don’t use this channel to submit ideas or wishes you want someone else of the community to work on!

If someone would like to be involved when a specific topic is tackled, please reach out to the ESC.

Gerrit 3.6

Target: Q2 2022

See Google 2021 Q4 OKRs.

  • UX
    • Composable SubmitRules

Upcoming plugin improvements related to Gerrit 3.6

  • New plugin: Allow group deletion
  • Replication plugin
    • Recover events on time basis instead of startup
    • Do not push to the same destination from more than one primary at a time (URI locks)
    • Shift the burden of firing pending events onto the specific replication threads for each event's remote
    • Support for external replication queue
    • Message-broker based replication queue
  • High-availability plugin
    • Mention HA and setup for multiple primary hosts in Gerrit documentation

Upgrades from 2.7 to latest stable release

  • Be able to upgrade a huge site (Qualcomm) from 2.7 to latest stable release in less than 4 hours
    • Improve NoteDb offline migration speed (Nov 2021 timing is ~2.5 hours for Qualcomm)
    • Improve schema upgrade speed (Nov 2021 timing is ~3 hours for Qualcomm)
    • Improve offline reindex speed (Nov 2021 timing is ~2 hours for Qualcomm)
    • Additional improvements planned through Q1 2022