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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2022-08-03-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on Aug 3, 2022" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Aug 3, 2022 |
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| Han-Wen Nienhuys, Luca Milanesio, Saša Živkov |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| Sept 7, 2022 |
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| ### Clarification of rolling version upgrade policy |
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| Confusion at Google regarding support status for rolling upgrades. |
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| This was documented [in the 3.2 release |
| notes](https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.2.html#zero-downtime-upgrade), |
| as an experimental feature. As it relies on the HA plugin which itself |
| is not a core plugin, this remains experimental. |
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| Upgrades, including 'rolling upgrades', must be planned with care. A |
| new version might write data for new features, or enforce submission |
| criteria with different business logic, leading to unpredictable |
| behavior changes. |
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| ### Public sector use of Gerrit |
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| Han-Wen: heard that in Europe, there is interest in open source from |
| the Public Sector, as it quells fears over being dependent on US |
| companies. Does anyone know of public sector Gerrit users? |
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| In the UK, there are laws to promote open source in government. Luca |
| will check if there are public references we could mention on the website. |
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| ### Roadmap |
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| Han-Wen will document quarterly objectives from Google. |
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| SAP is busy moving Gerrit deployment to k8s. Gerritforge is focused on |
| JGit changes affecting performance. |
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