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 ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, February 11, 2020

 ### Attendees

 David Pursehouse, Luca Milanesio, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Patrick Hiesel, Ben Rohlfs

 ### Place/Date/Duration

 Online, February 11, 12:45 - 13:30 CEST

 ### Next meeting

 The next meeting will be held on February 25, 12:30 CEST.

 ## Minutes

 ### Gerrit News Page

 Alice's summary of the new "preview/apply fix" feature did not make it
 into the last issue, and will instead go into the next one which is due
 to be published at the end of March.

 No other news items were disussed during this meeting. As usual, we invite
 the community to propose any items that they think would be interesting.

 ### Gerrit Roadmap

 We reviewed the current status of the roadmap, and decided to remove some
 items:

 - Replacing the guava cache with caffeine was already implemented and
 backported to 2.16.x, so no longer needs to be in the roadmap.

 - The plugin working group is not a core gerrit feature and thus doesn't
 need to be included in the roadmap.

 ### Non-core plugin releases

 We followed up on this issue that had been discussed in a previous meeting.

 Luca summarized that the problem is that there is no clearly defined
 repository where plugin artifacts can be downloaded. Regular build artifacts
 are available from CI but they are not immutable and change frequently.

 Luca proposed to introduce a process whereby the plugin owner can apply a
 tag on the plugin project, and CI will then generate a release which is
 deployed to a Google Cloud Bucket. The exact details of this process
 still need to be discussed.

 ### Concerns about polygerrit build reproducibility

 Recently a dependency of the polygerrit build disappeared, which caused
 build failures. See [issue 40011914](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40011914)
 for details.

 The polygerrit build has recently switched from Bower to NPM which should
 prevent this kind of problem from happening in future, but we need to also
 make sure that older releases are still buildable.

 ### Direct migration from 2.14 to 2.16

 David brought attention to [issue 40010119](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010119).
 Direct migration from 2.14 to 2.16 does not work, and this has been raised
 by users on the mailing list. So far the solution provided is only to do the
 migration with an intermediate step on 2.15.

 We did not have time to discuss it in detail, but David asked the ESC members
 to have a look at it and think about whether this can be solved to allow a
 direct migration.

 ### Review of open design documents

 We ran out of time and did not review open designs.

 ### Review of issues on the ESC component

 There were no issues requiring action from the ESC.
	---
	title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes"
	tags: esc
	keywords: esc minutes
	permalink: 2020-02-11-esc-minutes.html
	summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on February 11th"
	hide_sidebar: true
	hide_navtoggle: true
	toc: true
	---

	## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, February 11, 2020

	### Attendees

	David Pursehouse, Luca Milanesio, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Patrick Hiesel, Ben Rohlfs

	### Place/Date/Duration

	Online, February 11, 12:45 - 13:30 CEST

	### Next meeting

	The next meeting will be held on February 25, 12:30 CEST.

	## Minutes

	### Gerrit News Page

	Alice's summary of the new "preview/apply fix" feature did not make it
	into the last issue, and will instead go into the next one which is due
	to be published at the end of March.

	No other news items were disussed during this meeting. As usual, we invite
	the community to propose any items that they think would be interesting.

	### Gerrit Roadmap

	We reviewed the current status of the roadmap, and decided to remove some
	items:

	- Replacing the guava cache with caffeine was already implemented and
	backported to 2.16.x, so no longer needs to be in the roadmap.

	- The plugin working group is not a core gerrit feature and thus doesn't
	need to be included in the roadmap.

	### Non-core plugin releases

	We followed up on this issue that had been discussed in a previous meeting.

	Luca summarized that the problem is that there is no clearly defined
	repository where plugin artifacts can be downloaded. Regular build artifacts
	are available from CI but they are not immutable and change frequently.

	Luca proposed to introduce a process whereby the plugin owner can apply a
	tag on the plugin project, and CI will then generate a release which is
	deployed to a Google Cloud Bucket. The exact details of this process
	still need to be discussed.

	### Concerns about polygerrit build reproducibility

	Recently a dependency of the polygerrit build disappeared, which caused
	build failures. See [issue 40011914](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40011914)
	for details.

	The polygerrit build has recently switched from Bower to NPM which should
	prevent this kind of problem from happening in future, but we need to also
	make sure that older releases are still buildable.

	### Direct migration from 2.14 to 2.16

	David brought attention to [issue 40010119](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010119).
	Direct migration from 2.14 to 2.16 does not work, and this has been raised
	by users on the mailing list. So far the solution provided is only to do the
	migration with an intermediate step on 2.15.

	We did not have time to discuss it in detail, but David asked the ESC members
	to have a look at it and think about whether this can be solved to allow a
	direct migration.

	### Review of open design documents

	We ran out of time and did not review open designs.

	### Review of issues on the ESC component

	There were no issues requiring action from the ESC.