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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2022-12-14-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on Dec 14, 2022" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Dec 14, 2022 |
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| Christophe Pouchet, Luca Milanesio, Saša Živkov, Patrick Hiesel |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| Dec 14, 2022 |
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| ### Import of projects |
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| Luca gave an overview of the [draft design document](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/354234) |
| published regarding the process of moving from change-number to project/change-number |
| as unique global identifier of a change. |
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| Patrick gave an initial positive feedback on the overall approach, with some |
| points to be clarified and addressed: |
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| - Need for a solid migration path that allows gradual rollouts, so that |
| it would be possible to first migrate to Gerrit v3.8 and then enable a smooth |
| migration of projects to the new numbering scheme. |
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| - The `refs/sequences/changes` on `All-Projects` will continue to exist as |
| a fallback for projects that do not adopt the new numbering. |
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| Luca pointed out that the APIs would still need to receive the project |
| as part of the change identifier; it may the be discarded if the new |
| scheme is not enabled and it will fallback to the current behaviour. |
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| Saša highlighted that a useful implication of this move would be making |
| the move of projects across Gerrit primaries a lot easier, because of |
| the ability of having project-specific numbering. |
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| ### Overview of the Gerrit User Summit 2022 survey |
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| Luca presented an initial overview of the survery results about the |
| Gerrit User Summit 2022 in November: 100% of the people responding |
| to the questions agreed that their objective was achieved. |
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| More detailed results will be published on January 2023. |
