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| title: "Gerrit Community Manager Meeting Minutes" |
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| permalink: 2025-03-13-community-managers-minutes.html |
| summary: "Minutes from the community managers meeting held on March 14th, 2025" |
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| # Gerrit Community Managers Meeting, March 14th, 2025 |
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| **Participants**: Daniele Sassoli, Nasser Grainawi, Matthias Sohn |
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| ## Bi-Weekly Catch-up Meetings |
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| These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, however, despite |
| the agenda being public, they've not really been advertised. |
| Daniele suggested writing up minutes every time some worth sharing is discussed, as it happens |
| for the ESC, and so, here we are. |
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| ## Gerrit User Summit 2025 Planning |
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| Organization of the User Summit for 2025 has started with the aim to hold it again around |
| October time. We currently have interest by a few companies but no firm commitments. If you or |
| your company are interested in hosting the User Summit feel free to reach out to Daniele, Luca |
| or any community manager. |
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| ## Reducing spam on both issue tracker and gerrit.googlesource |
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| The community managers, together with the ESC, have agreed that membership to repo-discuss |
| should be required in order to post comments on [changes](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/) |
| or [raise issues](https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/). |
| This will allow us to ban users who are found to post spam content. |
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| In order to do this a new permission will be implemented in Gerrit core, as it's not currently |
| possible to prevent someone to post comments on issues while still allowing read access. |
| Daniele has already started working on this as part of [454501](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/454501). |
| This will require careful consideration from Google as they're running on master, Edwin has |
| advised that they'll be able to plan this for the second half of the year. |
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| We're sure this will be a welcome change as everyone can agree spammers have caused quite a lot |
| of noise over time on our platform. |
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| ## GerritMeets |
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| GerritMeets is progressing nicely with a talk planned in March on caching backend for Gerrit. |
| April's talk is already lined up too and will see a case-study from Google and Accenture on |
| using Gerrit as part of a wider framework for developing with the Android platform with a focus |
| on the automotive space. |
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