Participants: Daniele Sassoli, Nasser Grainawi

Gerrit Community Update: November 2025

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

GerritMeets Munich: Successful Turnout and great to be back at Google

Yesterday saw the latest instalment of GerritMeets event in Munich, which was a great success, drawing an excellent crowd of over 70 attendees for a productive day of community collaboration and technical discussion.

Many thanks to GDG Cloud Munich organizers, Florian Haubner and Mike Annau from Google for helping us organise and supporting the event!

Project & Community Engagement

A major highlight was the return of official presentations from Google, marking the first time in a few years they have actively participated. This presence was highly welcomed and signals a strong internal interest in the Gerrit project’s ongoing development, as also demonstrated by the growing number of commits in Gerrit 3.13.

In terms of leadership, community members Dani, Matthias, and Luca connected with Ivo, the new manager of the Gerrit team. This introductory meeting was positive, and the community looks forward to a fruitful collaboration as the project progresses.

Technical Insight: The MCP Server

The technical agenda featured strong sessions, notably the presentation on the MCP server, which was extremely well-received. The technology demonstration prompted an insightful community discussion.

Dani also suggested that it would be nice if the MCP server would learn some SSH commands to provide further functionalities.

FOSDEM Attendance

Sadly, this time round we did not manage to organize in time, we’ll target attending with a Gerrit stand in 2027.

Project Updates

Website Redesign

Dani will try to abstract the plain english from the HTML pages to YAML files.

Project Logo (Diffy)

We’re still discussing this, Luca is planning to start a poll in the coming days with a carousel of the logos proposed in the past few years at the Gerrit events.