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+title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes"
+tags: esc
+keywords: esc minutes
+permalink: 2021-04-07-esc-minutes.html
+summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on Apr 6, 2021"
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+
+## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Apr 6, 2021
+
+### Attendees
+
+Ben Rohlfs, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Luca Milanesio
+
+### Place/Date/Duration
+
+Online, Apr 6, 11:00 - 12:00 CET
+
+### Next meeting
+
+May 4, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 CET
+
+## Minutes
+
+### CSS Overrides
+
+Wikimedia [raised the problem of CSS overrides](https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/bokM7QOGULs)
+in the Gerrit Frontend from Gerrit v3.1 onwards. We know that other Gerrit hosts have similar
+problems.
+
+Ben as the Frontend lead is aware of the problem and proposed the following:
+
+- Gerrit's webcomponents are using the Shadow DOM and there is no way to change that. It is possible
+ to reach into the Shadow DOM of components with JavaScript, but this is only an option for one-off
+ workaround, not a general solution to the problem.
+- We will look into [css ::part()](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::part) for
+ release 3.5 and beyond. That spec can potentially address the use case well.
+- The Frontend team is fine with adding more css variables and plugin endpoints, if that helps
+ hosts to enable the desired customizations. This can even be done for stable branches, if needed.
+ But we are asking for a detailed explanation for what should be styled and why. At the moment we
+ think that most of the requests will be addressed by features planned for 3.4 (Checks UI) and 3.5
+ (Submit Requirements).
+- The Frontend team is also committed to responding quickly to such issues on the repo-discuss@
+ mailing list, especially when they are blocking upgrades from previous versions.
+
+### Gerrit v3.4 release status
+
+GerritForge will continue to improve the automatic E2E Gatling tests run daily on stable-3.4.
+A temporary 8x slowdown was discussed, but that was a one-off and performance is back to normal.
+Han-Wen has filed [issue 14344](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=14344) for
+looking into Soy slowdown.
+
+Luca proposed to issue a “weekly release bulletin” with list of commits included, builds
+summary and Gatling tests highlights. The ESC appreciates such weekly updates.
+
+### ElasticSearch support
+
+It was decided to keep ElasticSearch support in 3.4, but remove it in 3.5.
+
+### Click Tracking
+
+The [issue 14318](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=14318) was briefly discussed.
+Han-Wen and Ben explained how the 'clearcut' plugin works on Google hosted Gerrit instances. It
+collects usage statistics and performance data in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy.
+
+### Open Designs
+
+Marcin has proposed a new design for
+[Events Compatibility](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/302082). Han-Wen will
+find someone at Google to review the change and moderate the design process.
+
+Luca will reach out to Jacek about potentially closing the
+[stale designs](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/246449) for an "Auth Extension
+Point".
+
+### Roadmap Update
+
+Skipped
+
+### Monorail Issues assigned to ESC component
+
+We have looked into
+[all open issues](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/list?q=component%3AESC&can=2) and closed
+some. The remaining 4 issues are valid and will keep being monitored by the ESC.
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