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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2021-05-10-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on May 10, 2021" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, May 10, 2021 |
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| ### Attendees |
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| Ben Rohlfs, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Luca Milanesio, Patrick Hiesel, Saša Živkov, Albert Cui (observer) |
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| ### Place/Date/Duration |
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| Online, May 10, 17:00 - 18:00 CET |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| Jun 1, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 CET |
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| ## Minutes |
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| ### Switching ESC Seats |
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| Google will switch out Ben for Albert in the ESC. Thanks Ben for all your contributions! |
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| Albert is the product manager for Google's Gerrit team. |
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| ### Standalone JS Builds |
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| Gerrit will [remove HTML plugins](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/299364) as part of the 3.4 release. In doing so, standalone build support for frontend plugins was removed. This created issues for community members who depended on this behavior. |
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| The ESC discussed that David Ostrovsky provided [a fix](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/bazlets/+/304117) to bring back standalone build support, however there has never been a clear stance as to whether this functionality is formally supported by the Gerrit project. |
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| The ESC discussed that this functionality is used by very few people; SAP, Gerrit Forge, Google, for example, all do in-tree builds. |
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| The ESC reached consensus that for future releases, standalone build support would be a best effort, community supported feature and not a blocker for releases. |
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| ### Commenting / Selection issue in Safari Web Browser |
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| We've seen a growing number of complaints about a commenting / selection issue when using the newest version of Safari, the default in the latest macOS Big Sur release. |
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| Folks from GerritForge are actively looking to address the issue. |
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| ### Adding events-broker and global-refdb as submodules in the Gerrit tree |
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| Luca proposed adding GerritForge’s [events-broker](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/q/project:modules/events-broker) and [global-refdb](https://github.com/GerritForge/global-refdb) to the Gerrit tree as third party libraries (similar to JGit) to make plugin dependencies easier to manage. Patrick will look into this and provide feedback at the next ESC meeting. |
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| ### Open Designs |
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| Marcin has proposed a new design for |
| [Events Compatibility](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/302082). Han-Wen has discussed this with Marcin but has not had a chance to look into the updated design. |
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| ### Roadmap Update |
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| Skipped |
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| ### Monorail Issues assigned to ESC component |
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| We have looked into all open issues and assigned owners to all of them. |
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