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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2022-02-08-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on Feb 9, 2022" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Feb 9, 2022 |
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| Christophe Poucet, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Luca Milanesio, Patrick Hiesel, Saša Živkov. |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| March 2, 2022 |
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| ## Action items |
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| As discussed, adding a Submit Requirement for the `Release-Notes:` footer. |
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| ## Dropping Java 8 for v3.3/v3.4? |
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| Java 8 is only for custom builds; we won't add Java 11 language |
| features to the stable branch. |
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| Decision: Java 11 is the official version. Java 8 should work, but |
| requires custom build. |
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| ## Draft release plan for Gerrit 3.6 / Spring hackathon |
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| SubmitRequirements will be finished by the time 3.6 is out; Google |
| rolling it out this week. |
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| SAP/Google can't commit to travel plans due to covid policies, and |
| will participate virtually. Paladox will help with backporting FE |
| fixes from `master` to `stable-3.6`. |
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| ## Delays for Library-Compliance |
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| An escalation route was documented by Edwin. |
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| ## Making OAuth a core plugin. |
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| OpenID is deprecated, we should support OAuth out of the box to |
| provide a good experience for standalone usage. The current maintainer |
| (David O) is also Gerrit Maintainer. It is used by GerritForge for |
| Gerrithub. |
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| Corporate deployments tend to use SAML rather than OAuth. |
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| Consensus: this is OK. |
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| ## GCP credits for Gerrit CI |
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| The Gerrit CI workers cause toil for the Google team, as the VMs are |
| in scope for compliance and security scanning. Han-Wen will |
| investigate offering GCP credits to Gerritforge; cost of CI VMs is not |
| a primary issue for Gerritforge. |
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| ## Ignoring self-approvals for gerrit-review.googlesource.com |
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| This was brought up, but the change was |
| [documented](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2021-06-01-esc-minutes.html#accidental-breakage-of-the-conflicts-ui-in-v34). |
| ESC is open to change process and suggestions how to disseminate info |
| better. Perhaps CC the community managers? |
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| ## repo-discusss subscribed to Stackoverflow? |
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| This was suggested in the community meeting. Only questions with the |
| gerrit tag are mirrored. |
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| ## Open designs |
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| No news |
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| ## Roadmap |
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| Han-Wen to publish Google quarterly goals for Q1. |
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| ## ESC issues |
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| Discussion about potential DoS problem; cannot currently be disclosed. |
