Gerrit Community Managers Meeting, March 14th, 2025

Participants: Daniele Sassoli, Nasser Grainawi, Matthias Sohn

Bi-Weekly Catch-up Meetings

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.

Gerrit User Summit 2025 Planning

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.

Reducing spam on both issue tracker and gerrit.googlesource

The community managers, together with the ESC, have agreed that membership to repo-discuss should be required in order to post comments on changes or raise issues. This will allow us to ban users who are found to post spam content.

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. 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.

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.

GerritMeets

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.