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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2020-09-01-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on September 1st" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, September 1, 2020 |
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| ### Attendees |
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| Ben Rohlfs, Alice Kober-Sotzek, Patrick Hiesel, Luca Milanesio |
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| ### Place/Date/Duration |
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| Online, September 1, 12:30 - 13:30 CEST |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| The next meeting will be held on October 6, 12:30 CEST. |
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| ## Minutes |
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| ### CI Results Tab and Composable Submit Rules |
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| Ben and Patrick have met with all interested stakeholders and the |
| feedback loop is closing this week. Luca will take a final look at |
| both docs on Friday and approve if no major blockers surface until |
| then. |
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| ### Roadmap |
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| We discussed if the roadmap should include generic items or rather |
| be very specific. Recent discussions have shown that if it's too |
| specific adding items triggers discussions that already anticipate |
| discussions that would usually happen on design docs ("how" and |
| "why" not "what"). This seemingly discourages contributors from |
| adding items to the roadmap, which is not what we want. |
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| The roadmap will therefore stay generic and contributors should feel |
| encouraged to add plans they have. |
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| Items can be backed by tracking bugs if the owner wants that. |
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| ### Gerrit 3.3 |
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| We discussed plans for the 3.3 release and are targeting a release |
| in November with branches being cut in October. Luca will drive the |
| release. Google will check if there are internal resources to support |
| this effort, which was unclear at the time of the meeting. |
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| Luca would also reach out other maintainers that would be willing to |
| help with the release. |
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| ### New maintainership |
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| The nomination for a new maintainer is progressing well and will |
| conclude on Thursday. |
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| ### Gerrit Event Bus |
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| Luca raised the priority of the redesign of the Gerrit events, which |
| is not in any of the next release plans. GerritForge is willing to |
| drive the effort, assuming that there is consensus in supporting the |
| initiative by Google and other companies contributing to Gerrit. |
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| Alice, who initially raised the issue during the Hackathon 2019 in |
| Munich, is not currently planning to make progress, but will handover |
| her notes to Luca so that the effort can be carried over for making |
| it an official proposal. |
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| Luca will follow up with a list of problems that GerritForge is having |
| with the current event system. |
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| ### Open designs |
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| Besides the CI results tab and Composable Submit Rules, we discussed |
| deletion of groups. Alice volunteered to write a conclusion. The feature |
| should be implemented in a plugin so that the auditability of groups |
| remains intact in core. |
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