Participants: Daniele Sassoli, Nasser Grainawi, Matthias Sohn, Luca Milanesio

Gerrit Community Update: October 2025

This update covers key discussions, events, and future planning points discussed by the Gerrit community team, reflecting recent activities and upcoming initiatives.

Gerrit User Summit 2025 Review

The recent Gerrit User Summit was a great success, one of the best ones in over a decade, generating considerable enthusiasm and valuable discussion. We were particularly excited to welcome members of the broader Git ecosystem, including Patrick Steinhart from GitLab, Scott Chacon from GitButler and Skyler for the JJ project. Their presence fostered excellent cross-project conversations and highlighted areas for future collaboration.

We extend our sincere thanks to the OpenInfra Foundation for their generous support and for hosting the event, ensuring a smooth and productive gathering for all attendees.

You can access the full summary of the summit on the GerritForge blog.

Future Conference and Contribution Planning

Looking ahead, we are exploring new ways to expand community engagement and collaboration:

2026 Summit Planning

Luca suggested initiating early conversations with GitButler, Google, GitLab and other interested parties about jointly planning an even more integrated conference, reminiscent of the old GitTogether days for next year, where we could cover even more broadly the git ecosystem, even including the JJ community.

New contributors Hackathon

To encourage new contributions and onboard organizations like GitButler, Luca proposed a German-based company to host a Gerrit beginners hackathon in Berlin. Matthias has offered to check on providing a suitable room for the event but requires a confirmed date to proceed with logistics.

FOSDEM Attendance

Matthias will also investigate the possibility of officially representing the Gerrit project at FOSDEM to raise visibility and connect with other open-source communities. The deadline for the call for stands is the 9th of November.

Upcoming Meetup

Mark your calendars! The next Gerrit community meetup will take place at the Google Munich office on November 19th in collaboration with the Google Cloud Developer Group. The event is already sold out on the GDG page, while there are still a few spots available on the meetup.com. Dani will send a formal announcement of the event to the mailing list next week.

Project Updates

Website Redesign

Progress is continuing on the redesign of the Gerrit Code Review website. Nasser will commit to doing more reviews on the homepage mock-ups and development.

If you’re a frontend developer and would like to propose your own design feel free to reach out on discord or the mailing list.

Project Logo (Diffy)

A recurring point of discussion—and a notable observation from the OpenInfra attendees is that only a couple of people out of hundreds using Gerrit at the OpenInfra projects were aware that Diffy is the official Gerrit logo. This is a significant branding issue with out logo and its discoverability. We propose to start discussions again on improving the project logo to one that is more immediately recognizable and representative of the Gerrit code review tool.