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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2020-07-07-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on July 7th" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, July 7, 2020 |
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| ### Attendees |
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| David Pursehouse, Patrick Hiesel, Luca Milanesio |
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| ### Place/Date/Duration |
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| Online, June 7, 12:30 - 13:00 CEST |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| The next meeting will be held on August 4, 12:30 CEST. |
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| ## Minutes |
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| ### Project News |
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| The next news post is due to be published at the end of July. We will |
| collect news items ad-hoc as this date approaches. |
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| ### Secure Pipeline |
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| Luca has set up a secure CI pipeline and will publish Helm Charts for K8s |
| so that we can spin up this pipeline to test fixes on-demand. |
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| ### Problematic terminology |
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| The community managers have started an initiative to remove or replace |
| problematic terminology from Gerrit (For example: "master"). The ESC supports |
| this initiative. |
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| ### Stability fixes for 3.2 |
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| There are stability issues with the 3.2 release with respect to the replication |
| plugin. A series of fixes have been merged and will release shorty. |
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| ### Maintainership |
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| There is a candidate for a new maintainership that will be discussed with the |
| maintainers in an offical nomination shortly. |
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| ### Review of open design documents |
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| No progress. |
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| ### Java 11 |
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| We will move to Java 11 being the default JDK before cutting stable branches for 3.3. |
| This will raise the langage level of the project to 11. We will continue to run |
| builds for Java 8+ for some time to ensure customers with custom JDKs can still run |
| Gerrit. |
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| ### Review of issues on the ESC component |
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| Patrick went over the list after the meeting and removed issues that aren't in |
| the ESC's domain. |
