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title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes"
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summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on May 3, 2023"
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## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Apr 12 - May 3 2023
Christophe Poucet, Patrick Hiesel, Luca Milanesio, Saša Živkov
### Next meeting
July 12, 2023
### Spring Hackathon
There weren't enough attendees to justify a face-to-face hackathon in
Munich (Germany) this year. The Gerrit Spring Hackathon took place
remotely on Discord.
### Gerrit v3.8
The release of Gerrit v3.8 happened according to plans and was officially
[announced on May 20](https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/VwQvtFeJxCY/m/PdiqDhFWBAAJ).
The dismissal of new [Prolog rules](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/360756)
has been discussed and the common agreement is to relax the constraints and
still allow them in v3.9 but stricter afterwards.
### Future of JGit hosting on Gerrit
The Eclipse Foundation announced
[the shutdown of their Gerrit server](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/680)
which would have left the JGit project without a code-review platform.
Matthias Sohn, the maintainer of JGit, proposed to move the development to
[GitHub/GerritHub](https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/3137) which
would allow to dog-food the JGit development and also to have a resilient
and effective code-review platform, keeping the full history of the code-reviews.
### Gerrit User Summit 2023
[Volvo Cars](https://www.volvocars.com/) has offered to host the Gerrit User Summit 2023,
from Sep 30th to Oct 1st, in Gothenburg at [Volvohallen](https://goo.gl/maps/HWHd11EkEP6YPAjD7),
co-sponsored with [Polstar](https://www.polestar.com/).
The proposal was already subject to a
[public poll on repo-discuss](https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/kpVRz_9vQB8/m/OSc9JjL5AAAJ)
with the following results:
- 38.7% are willing to attend face-to-face at Volvo Cars in Gothenburg
- 32.3% are planning to watch the event live on [GerritForge's YouTube Channel](https://tv.gerritforge.com)
- 25.8% will be watching the recording offline