Presentations | Gerrit Code Review

Community members willing to learn about Gerrit may find useful resources on this single page. The listed presentations can be tutorials, slides, videos, channels or other relevant formats. There are tutorials also in the Gerrit documentation.

GerritForge also publishes the recordings of the talks of the Gerrit summits on a dedicated YouTube channel.

Basics

Git explained (2019)
Gerrit explained (2019)

Features

Attention Set (2020)
Code Owners:
- code-owners plugin
  - Code Owners (2020)
    - Demo (Dec 2021)
    - Video (Dec 2021)
    - Demo (Jun 2021)
- owners plugin
  - How to make OWNERS faster (2023)
    - Slides
    - Video
  - 4 new OWNERS plugin features (2022)
    - Video
Diff Cache Redesign (2020)
Ported Comments (2020)
PubSub / Consistency on Demand (2021)
pull-replication plugin (2021)
- What’s new in the pull-replication plugin (2022)
  - Video
Replication Distributor (2021)
Revert Submission (2019)
Robot Comments (2016)

Release Highlights

What’s new in Gerrit 3.9/3.10
What’s new in Gerrit 3.8 and beyond (2023)
- Video
What’s new in Gerrit 3.6/3.7 (2022)
- Video
What’s new in Gerrit 3.4/3.5 (2021)
What’s new in Gerrit 3.1 and beyond (2019)
What’s new in Gerrit 3.0? (2019)
What’s new in Gerrit 2.14.x and 2.15? (2018)
Gerrit 2.16, 3.0, and beyond (2018)
What’s new in Gerrit 2.15? (2017)
- Video (2017)
What’s new in Gerrit 2.14.x? (2017)
What’s New in Gerrit 2.12, 2.13 and 2.14? (2016)
What‘s new in 2.11, what’s coming in 2.12? (2015)
What’s new in 2.9? (2014)
2014 Roadmap (2014)

UI Improvements

Gerrit UI Features 2022 (2022)
- Video
UI Updates - Checks, Comment Context, Change Summary (2021)
Change Page Cleanups (2021)
Gerrit UX History (2021)
Evolving the change screen (2020)
PolyGerrit UX: Findings from research/experience on the new GUI (2017)
An Update on PolyGerrit (2016)
PolyGerrit: New Polymer UI (2015)
Discoverable Projects (2012)

User stories

Gerrit at CodeCraft (BMW) (2023)
- Video
Switching from SVN to Gerrit mono repo (2022)
- Video
Gerrit at Nokia (2022)
- Video
Gerrit at Google: Multi-master, Multi-tenant (2017)
Gerrit at OpenStack (2016)
Git at Google (2015)
Ericsson’s migration to Gerrit (2015)
Scaling Gerrit at Ericsson (2015)
Scaling Gerrit at Ericsson (2014)
Gerrit at Yahoo (2015)
Gerrit at LibreOffice (2014)
Gerrit at SAP (2014)
Gerrit at Tieto (2012)

Deployment

Gerrit on Kubernetes (2022)
- Video
Docker-based replica setup (2021)
Gerrit on Kubernetes and Gardener (2018)
Gerrit with Apache Cassandra as JGit storage (2016)
Docker-ization of Gerrit (2014)

Multi-Site

Unsplitting Gerrit (2023)
- Video
How healthcheck and multi-site keeps your sleep at night (2022)
- Video
Gerrit goes multi-site (2019)
Gerrit Multi-master and Multi-site (2018)
- Scaling Gerrit: active-active masters (2015)

Upgrades

Discuss upgrade complexity (2020)
Gerrit migrations step by step (2019)
Upgrading to Gerrit 2.15: a real-life story on GerritHub.io (2018)
Zero-downtime Gerrit upgrades (2016)

Submitting Changes

Composable Submit Requirements (2021)
Labels & Prolog-Less Submit Rules (2019)
Simple submit rules (2018)
Coupling Changes - Atomic Submit (2015)
Prolog 101 (2012)
Submit types with Prolog (2012)

Build / CI

New Checks UI (2021)
CI Reboot Wireframes Discussion (2021)
End-to-end tests (2020)
- Video (2020)
E2E testing with Gatling - framework overview (2019)
- Video (2019)
Checks plugin (2019)
Bazel new and noteworthy (2018)
Gerrit CI: How to keep logs forever on Jenkins (2017)
Atomicity with change-sets and topic submission (2016)
Implementing Gerrit build with Bazel (2016)
Continuous Delivery in Big Data (2015)
Codenvy - Continuous Development with Gerrit (2014)

Analytics

Gerrit Analytics applied to the Android project (2019)
Show me your dashboard (2019)
DevOps Analytics - Uncover the value of Gerrit Pipeline (2018)
Mining Gerrit Data to Study Contentious Reviews and Community Evolution (2017)
Gerrit Analytics (2016)
Monitoring Gerrit (2015)
Monitoring Gerrit (2014)

Workflows

Promoting Situational Awareness in Code Review Platforms (2021)
Discuss faster reviews (2020)
Different change workflows in Gerrit (2018)
Browsing Repository Content with Gerrit’s REST API (2014)

Administration

Access Rights (2012)
Case Insensitive Username Matching (2021)
Debugging Gerrit (2021)
Import Gerrit projects across servers (2022)
- Video
Master to main migration at Google (2021)
Metrics:
- git-repo-metrics plugin (2022)
  - Video
NoteDb:
- How to import project changes between Gerrit Servers (2022)
  - Video with demo (2022)
- Update on NoteDb (2017)
- Accounts in NoteDb (2016)
- NoteDb: Code reviews in Git (2015)
Performance:
- Performance Optimizations in JGit (2021)
- Building a lightning-fast Gerrit (2019)
- Tuning Gerrit (2015)
  - Performance Tuning Cheat Sheet (2015)
- JGit Performance (2012)
Scaling:
- How to survive with large mono-repos in Gerrit (2021)

Plugin API

Extending Gerrit - A look at the Gerrit Plugin API (2014)
How to script a plugin (2014)
Making a plugin in 10 minutes (2012)
Making a group system plugin (2012)
JavaScript plugins (2012)

JGit

Reftable (2019)
- Reftable status updates (2021)
Racy JGit - a short history of time (2019)

Community

Survey: mandatory case-insensitive handling of usernames (2021)
Gerrit Bug Triaging & Issue Management - Hackthon Discussion (2021)
Why are some organizations moving away from Gerrit? (2020)
Discuss user stories (2020)
Community Survey 2021 (2021)
Community Survey H2 2019 (2020)
Gerrit Community Retrospective (2019)
Feature Requests (2014)

Events

Tools / ThirdParty

Git Health Service (2023)
- Video
Using GitHub Actions with GerritHub (2021)
Overview of Gerrit in AWS (2021)
Forward Gerrit events to Jenkins via AWS Kinesis (2021)
Gertty, console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system (2019)
Dependency Visualization with Gerrit (2019)
Introducing ‘zoekt’: git aware codesearch (2016)
- Improvements to the Zoekt code search system (2017)
  - Video (2017)
CollabNet:
- Ossum with Gerrit (2019)
- Beyond Gerrit (2017)
- Diffy with enterprise grade (2017)
- Bringing pull requests to Gerrit (2016)
- Non-Prolog submit rules (2015)
- Diffy gets enterprise grade (2014)
- Guiding Diffy to the Enterprise land (2014)
So what’s up with the repo tool and submodules? (2016)
GerritHub.io - present, past, future (2015)
Gerrit Code Review with GitHub plugin (2014)

Other

training/gerrit repo

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