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| title: "Gerrit Project News #5: October-November 2019" |
| tags: news |
| keywords: news |
| permalink: 2019-11-29-gerrit-news-oct-nov-2019.html |
| summary: "Gerrit project news from October and November 2019." |
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| ## Working Group to deal with plugin community issues |
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| The community managers and the ESC identified community issues with plugins as a |
| larger topic within the Gerrit community that needs attention. A group of |
| volunteers formed a |
| [working group](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gerritcodereview-plugin-working-group) |
| to drive this topic and work on resolving the issues. Anyone is welcome to join |
| this group and help with getting the work done. Issues that this group is |
| tackling are collected on a hotlist in Monorail. |
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| The focus of this group is on community issues with plugins (e.g. processes and |
| best practices around plugins). Specific issues with plugins, extension points |
| and plugin infrastructure are not in scope. |
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| ## Hackathon and User Summit in Sunnyvale |
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| GerritForge hosted a hackathon from the 11th to 15th November and a User Summit on the |
| 16th and 17th in Sunnyvale, California. |
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| Luca's report of the summit is [in progress](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/246605) |
| and will be published separately. |
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| ## Gerrit 3.1.0 Released |
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| During the hackathon in Sunnyvale, Gerrit version 3.1.0 was released. This version |
| includes the long-awaited support for git protocol V2, and the PolyGerrit UI is |
| upgraded to use Polymer 2. |
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| See the [release notes](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.1.html) for full details. |
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| ## Gerrit Roadmap |
| |
| The Engineering Steering Committee has published a tentative |
| [roadmap](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/roadmap.html) for the project. The |
| roadmap defines features to be included in the next release (version 3.2.0) and |
| in future releases. |
