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| title: "Gerrit Project News #6: December 2019 - January 2020" |
| tags: news |
| keywords: news |
| permalink: 2020-01-24-gerrit-news-dec-jan-2020.html |
| summary: "Gerrit project news from December 2019 and January 2020." |
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| ## Community Survey Results |
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| The results of last year's Community Survey have been |
| [published](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSFj7v00OS14bP64bFPsQbLIy8zP48oc9oyZNod3C7MCGyRDkCh9h64QPMiznevRNWwKRyKACSOy-Zf/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000). |
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| ## Backup Documentation |
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| Matthias Sohn (SAP) created a new documentation page with detailed |
| instructions of how to backup a Gerrit site. This was included in |
| the releases |
| [2.16.14](http://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.16.14/backup.html), |
| [3.0.5](http://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/3.0.5/backup.html), |
| and [3.1.1](https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/3.1.1/backup.html). |
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| ## Tighter integration between Gerrit CI and the Checks plugin |
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| Thomas Dräbing (SAP), David Ostrovsky and Luca Milanesio (GerritForge) have been working |
| to improve the integration of the current [Gerrit CI](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com) |
| with the UI of the [Checks plugin](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/checks). |
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| That includes the ability to directly link to the build logs from the Gerrit change screen |
| and the possibility to re-run the build from the Checks tab. |
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| Read the [full story on the repo-discuss mailing list](https://groups.google.com/d/topic/repo-discuss/cyGrURwY7eM/discussion). |
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| ## Zuul integration with Gerrit is coming to Gerrit CI |
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| James E. Blair (RedHat) has been working to provide the automatic CI validation |
| of Gerrit changes using [Zuul](https://zuul-ci.org) integrated with the [Checks plugin](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/checks) |
| running on [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com). |
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| He is currently in the environment setup phase and very soon a parallel CI environment |
| will be running and working side-by-side with the [Gerrit-CI](https://gerrit-ci.gerritforge.com). |
| We are all looking forward to seeing Zuul running and taking over Jenkins for the Gerrit change |
| validation in the next few months. |
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| ## HTTPS Required for Download from Maven Central |
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| [Effective January 15, 2020](https://support.sonatype.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041287334), |
| the Central Repository no longer supports insecure communication over plain HTTP and requires |
| that all requests to the repository are encrypted over HTTPS. |
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| As a result of this, older releases of Gerrit (2.15.x and older) are no longer buildable |
| from source on a clean development environment because the rules_closure dependency includes |
| a download over HTTP. |
| This was fixed in [change 250502](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/250502) |
| which is included in `stable-2.14`. To build Gerrit 2.14.x and 2.15.x it is now necessary |
| to build from the tip of the `stable-2.14` and `stable-2.15` branches, or in an environment |
| where the rules_closure dependency has already been downloaded before January 15. |
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| ## Git Merge 2020 |
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| Patrick Hiesel will |
| [give a presentation about NoteDb](https://git-merge.com/#notedb-58-an-adventure-where-git-is-your-database) |
| at the Git Merge 2020 conference in Los Angeles on March 4th. |
