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| title: "Gerrit ESC Meeting Minutes" |
| tags: esc |
| keywords: esc minutes |
| permalink: 2023-05-03-esc-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the ESC meeting held on May 3, 2023" |
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| ## Engineering Steering Committee Meeting, Apr 12 - May 3 2023 |
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| Christophe Poucet, Patrick Hiesel, Luca Milanesio, Saša Živkov |
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| ### Next meeting |
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| July 12, 2023 |
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| ### Spring Hackathon |
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| 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. |
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| ### Gerrit v3.8 |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| ### Future of JGit hosting on Gerrit |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| ### Gerrit User Summit 2023 |
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| [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/). |
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| 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: |
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| - 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 |