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+title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting #4 Minutes"
+tags: news
+keywords: news
+permalink: 2019-06-25-esc-minutes.html
+summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on June 25th"
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+
+## Fourth meeting of the engineering steering committee for the 2019 term
+
+Today the fourth meeting of the Engineering Steering Committee took
+place. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were
+covered.
+
+### Attendees
+
+Luca Milanesio, David Pursehouse, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Ben Rohlfs
+
+### Place/Date/Duration
+
+Online, June 25, 12:30 - 13:15 CEST
+
+### Next meeting
+
+The next meeting will be held on July 19, 12:30 CEST.
+
+## Minutes
+
+* Security notification changes
+
+ There is only one change still pending. The other issues in the tracker
+ were closed.
+
+* Upcoming Gerrit User Summits in Gothenburg and Sunnyvale
+
+ The next Gerrit User Summits dates and schedule are now published. Google,
+ GerritForge, and CollabNet are planning to send representatives to one or
+ both events. More talks details are going to be published in the next few
+ days, and slots for new talks are still available on the Sunnyvale event.
+
+* Issues with recent JGit releases
+
+ The recent releases of JGit, starting from 5.1.8, are experiencing
+ [problems](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=548188)
+ related to the racy reads of the Git repository files, which impacts the
+ normal Gerrit operations. The JGit and Gerrit maintainers are aware of them
+ and are working hard to get them identified and fixed. In the meantime,
+ Gerrit will stay on the latest stable JGit versions which are not impacted
+ by the racy read problem.
+
+* Removal of Gerrit v2.13 and associated plugins from the Gerrit CI
+
+ Gerrit v2.13 has not been supported by the community for a few months and it
+ is now going also be removed from the Gerrit CI. That means that all existing
+ builds artifacts are going to be [archived](https://archive-ci.gerritforge.com/)
+ and Gerrit CI can drop the support for Gerrit v2.13 and associated plugin builds.
+ This would allow to remove the support for the Buck-based builds and save a lot
+ of space in the Docker build images.
+
+* Gerrit CI security
+
+ The current security on Gerrit CI is going to be upgraded to use X.509 Client
+ certificates instead of the current GitHub OAuth authentication. The existing
+ Jenkins instance will remain read-only for public unauthenticated access whilst
+ the Gerrit maintainers will be provided with a client authentication
+ certificate to install on their Web Browsers.
+
+* Gerrit News Page
+
+ There hasn't been any feedback on David's proposal to publish a regular news
+ post on the project website. The draft for a post at the end of June is there,
+ but has no content yet.
+
+ David will try to get the ball rolling with a brief update on recent activity
+ in the project.
+
+* Polymer 2 Migration
+
+ Polymer 2 support is currently available on gerrit-review.googlesource.com and
+ accessible by adding the `?p2` URL parameter.
+
+ Any Polymer 2 specific issues can be reported on the Gerrit Issue Tracker using
+ the `Polymer2` hotlist.
+
+ People started adopting Polymer 2 and reporting some initial feedback and fixes.
+ Everyone is invited to try it out and report any issue. Similarly, plugins need
+ to be checked for Polymer 2 compatibility and fixed if needed.
+
+* New Gitiles release
+
+ The current version of Gitiles needs to be fixed and a stable branch created to
+ address one recent regression. See
+ [change 227998](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gitiles/+/227998).
+
+ More generally the Gitiles project, that has historically had linear development
+ on the master branch, needs to be branched and released more consistently with
+ the Gerrit semantic versioning.
+
+* Frequency of Meetings
+
+ It was agreed that the current bi-weekly meeting frequency is sufficient for
+ now, and the next meeting will be in 2 weeks as usual. If we feel that we need
+ a longer gap, i.e. during the summer holiday season, we will decide that on
+ an ad-hoc basis.
