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| title: "Community Manager Meeting June 5, 2019" |
| tags: news community |
| keywords: news community |
| permalink: 2019-06-05-cm-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the Community Manager meeting on June 5th" |
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| ## First meeting of the community managers for the 2019 term |
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| Today the first meeting of the Gerrit Community Managers took place in an |
| online meeting. This post contains a short summary of the topics that were |
| covered. |
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| ### Attendees |
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| Edwin Kempin, Marco Miller, Matthias Sohn |
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| ### Place/Date/Duration |
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| Online meeting, June 5, 17:00-18:00 CET |
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| ## Minutes |
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| ### Community manager role |
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| * like a Scrum master for the Gerrit community |
| * support the community and the ESC |
| * help to remove impediments, try to identify them pro-actively |
| * time we can spend: 10-25% |
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| ### Working mode |
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| * Regular online meeting, target weekly |
| * Agenda and notes are kept private since they may contain sensitive information |
| * Minutes will be published |
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| ### Backlog and communication |
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| * Backlog in new [component "Community" in issue tracker](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues?q=componentid:1371048) |
| * Establish a dedicated google group for discussions with community managers, sensitive topics need private group, explore what is supported by google groups, see [issue 40010768](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010768) |
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| ### Introduce community managers |
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| * added list of community managers to the [members page of the Gerrit website](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/members.html#community-managers) |
| * will post introduction on repo-discuss once dedicated google group is available |
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| ### Measure community satisfaction |
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| * consider surveys, discussion to be continued, see [issue 40010771](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010771) |
| * community retrospective similar to a scrum retrospective planned for user summit in Gothenburg on 29-30th August, see [issue 40010774](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010774) |
| * consider community retrospective after releases |
| * gather experience with the retrospective planned for user summit Gothenburg |
| * do retrospective face to face at hackathon |
| * publish results as Gerrit change and let everyone comment and contribute further ideas in the review |
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| ### Possibilities to better align Gerrit community with JGit and Bazel communities |
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| * Bazel conference in Mountain View and Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale both planned for Nov |
| * invite a Bazel talk to the Gerrit user summit in Sunnyvale, see [issue 40010773](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010773) |
| * invite for JGit presentations at Gerrit user summits, see [issue 40010772](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010772) |
| * [EclipseCon Europe Oct 21-24](https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2019) would be another opportunity to meet JGit committers and contributors |
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| ### Code of conduct |
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| * consider introducing a code of conduct for the Gerrit project, discussion to be done, see [issue 40010775](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010775) |
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| ### Testimonials |
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| * CMs will drive gathering of [testimonials](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/testimonials.html) |
| * [Try to get some as example from/for (about Gerrit at) Google](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010784) |
| * [Try to get one from/for (about Gerrit at) SAP](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010783) |
| * [Try to get one from/for (about Gerrit at) Ericsson](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/issues/40010782) |
