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 ## Constitutive meeting of the engineering steering committee for the 2019 term

 Today the first and constitutive meeting of the Engineering Steering Committee took
 place in-person in Munich. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were
 covered. We are looking forward to working with you on making these ideas become a
 reality

 ### Attendees

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

 ### Place/Date/Duration

 Munich, May 16, 11am - 12:30pm

 ## Minutes

 ### Project Homepage

 The homepage should have a place to list maintainers (both active and past) as
 well as a place to list ESC members (both active and past).

 The current homepage has a number of downsides (requires a manual push, compiles
 markdown to HTML, limited in what the output can look like). We want to look into
 other options that alleviate some of these. We will approach the wider community
 with a proposal once it materializes to seek input.

 ### Meeting Schedule

 Further Meetings will be Tuesdays, 12:30pm MUC time. The cadence we start with is bi-weekly.

 ### Governance Documentation

 Edwin’s remaining governance documentation changes have enough community support that
 they can be merged, so ESC will vote and submit. Further modifications are always possible
 through iterative changes.

 ### Maintainers

 Through rotating jobs, a lot of Google-maintainers became inactive. We will approach them
 to see if they are interested in contributing in the future or would be OK with giving up
 maintainership status.

 New maintainers, especially new hires on the Google teams, need to pass the same bar as
 everyone else to become a maintainer (that was alleviated for Ole and Ben because they
 took over the complete frontend from scratch). They might pass that bar faster though
 as they spend the majority of time on Gerrit.

 ### Future Events

 For future Gerrit events (user summits/hackathons) we could try to collocate them with
 other events (e.g. JGit conference, etc.) to provide more benefit to users who attend.

 ### Design Documents

 The ESC will process the input we got from the hackathon (especially around design docs)
 and send around a concrete proposal including the first 1-2 design docs adhering to the
 template for the community to give feedback on.

 ### Bug Tracker

 Our bugtracker has come of age, so we want to investigate other options. As soon as
 concrete proposals materialize, they will be presented to get feedback.
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	## Constitutive meeting of the engineering steering committee for the 2019 term

	Today the first and constitutive meeting of the Engineering Steering Committee took
	place in-person in Munich. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were
	covered. We are looking forward to working with you on making these ideas become a
	reality

	### Attendees

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

	### Place/Date/Duration

	Munich, May 16, 11am - 12:30pm

	## Minutes

	### Project Homepage

	The homepage should have a place to list maintainers (both active and past) as
	well as a place to list ESC members (both active and past).

	The current homepage has a number of downsides (requires a manual push, compiles
	markdown to HTML, limited in what the output can look like). We want to look into
	other options that alleviate some of these. We will approach the wider community
	with a proposal once it materializes to seek input.

	### Meeting Schedule

	Further Meetings will be Tuesdays, 12:30pm MUC time. The cadence we start with is bi-weekly.

	### Governance Documentation

	Edwin’s remaining governance documentation changes have enough community support that
	they can be merged, so ESC will vote and submit. Further modifications are always possible
	through iterative changes.

	### Maintainers

	Through rotating jobs, a lot of Google-maintainers became inactive. We will approach them
	to see if they are interested in contributing in the future or would be OK with giving up
	maintainership status.

	New maintainers, especially new hires on the Google teams, need to pass the same bar as
	everyone else to become a maintainer (that was alleviated for Ole and Ben because they
	took over the complete frontend from scratch). They might pass that bar faster though
	as they spend the majority of time on Gerrit.

	### Future Events

	For future Gerrit events (user summits/hackathons) we could try to collocate them with
	other events (e.g. JGit conference, etc.) to provide more benefit to users who attend.

	### Design Documents

	The ESC will process the input we got from the hackathon (especially around design docs)
	and send around a concrete proposal including the first 1-2 design docs adhering to the
	template for the community to give feedback on.

	### Bug Tracker

	Our bugtracker has come of age, so we want to investigate other options. As soon as
	concrete proposals materialize, they will be presented to get feedback.