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| title: "Gerrit Project News #9: 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." |
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| ## Community Management work done |
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| See the [dedicated news post](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2020-04-22-community-managers-report.html). |
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| ## Cherry-picking topics |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| ## Serializing the External Groups Cache |
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| Gerrit can be linked to external user directories like LDAP, |
| providing Gerrit with external users and groups. External groups can |
| be added to Gerrit to restrict access to refs and repos and are |
| mainly used for permissions evaluation. |
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| We implemented a significant performance improvement by serializing |
| the external groups in-memory cache for faster lookups. We used the |
| common serialization infrastructure used by other caches. This has an |
| impact on Gerrit setups that require frequent server restarts, i.e. |
| for warming up caches. For Google hosted Gerrit sites, the cache |
| loading time for all lookup requests was reduced from a few hundreds |
| of minutes to less than 3 minutes per day. |
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| ## Comments tab moved |
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| We have renamed the "Comment Threads" tab to "Comments" and moved it |
| from next to "Change Log" to next to "Files". |
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| ## File status chips |
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| We now have Added`(A)`, Renamed`(R)`, Copied`(C)`, Deleted`(D)`, |
| Unchanged`(U)`, Rewritten`(W)` chips after the file name on our file |
| list. We do not show "Modified" status anymore. |
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| ## Mark as active |
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| We have a new `Mark as Active` button as a one-click action for changing |
| the state from `WIP` to `Active`. It is located where the `Submit` |
| button is. |
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| ## ESC and CM elections |
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| The Engineering Steering Committee and Community Managers elections |
| [have been completed](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/repo-discuss/zHCT2IowQng/huv-6NsbAgAJ). |
| 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](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/members.html). |
