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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2022-09-14-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on Sep 14, 2022" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Sep 14, 2022 |
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| Han-Wen Nienhuys, Luca Milanesio, Christophe Pouchet, Saša Živkov |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| Oct 5, 2022 |
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| ### Proposal of a Gerrit User Summit 2022 face-to-face in London |
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| Based on the feedback of the Gerrit User Summit 2021, [GerritForge](https://www.gerritforge.com) |
| proposed to have a Gerrit User Summit face-to-face again in London |
| at [CodeNode](https://www.codenode.live/). |
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| The format would be similar to the [Summit in 2019](https://gerrit.googlesource.com/summit/2019/+/0747f3d79531be2939602e19611b1b8d8ed6e083/schedule-usa.md) |
| in Sunnyvale CA, where an AV streaming channel will allow people |
| to attend and participate remotely. |
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| SAP and Google will attend and present at the Summit but only remotely. |
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| ### Gerrit v3.7 release plan draft |
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| The release plan for Gerrit v3.7 has been shared, and there |
| consensus that it can go ahead with the review and approval. |
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| Google is focusing on closing down the in-flight features on master, |
| GerritForge will be finalising the features for rendering |
| changes imported as refs from other Gerrit setups, which would help the |
| [JGit project](https://www.eclipse.org/jgit/) in moving their repositories to GerritHub.io. |
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| Luca will bump the JGit version on Gerrit master ASAP, so that it |
| can be tested on the ground before starting the stable-3.7 branch. |
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| ### Public sector use of Gerrit |
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| Luca shared the research done about the use of open-source in the UK: |
| - [General guidance on the approach to open-source for UK Digital Services](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/be-open-and-use-open-source) |
| - [MoJ open positions for SCM admins with Gerrit experience](https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/digital-outcomes-and-specialists/opportunities/4443) |
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| The two above resources give evidence that Gerrit is used in the UK |
| and the [Government Digital Services](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service) |
| encourage the use of open-source in developing their platform. |
