Participants: Daniele Sassoli, Nasser Grainawi, Matthias Sohn, Terry Parker, Ivo Ristovski List

Gerrit Community Update: January 2026

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

Welcome Ivo and Terry

Recently the Git/Gerrit team at Google has undergone some changes after Ben Rohlfs left the project in 2025 to move to pastures anew. Ivo joined the Gerrit team as Engineering Manager late into 2025, he joins from the Bazel team and brings lot of Open-Source experience to the project, which is always great to see. Recently, he was joined by Terry, who will be overseeing all things Git at Google. Terry is a long standing member of the Gerrit community having worked alongside Shawn since the project was in its early stages.

Welcome Ivo and Terry, its great to have you guys join us and we’re looking forwarding to your input and support to the project.

Gerrit User Summit 2026

We’re trying to start early with organizing the summit this year after last year’s great success. We put a first feeder out to the bazel community to co-locate it with BazelCon, however it looks like the venue won’t be able to support another event at the same time. We’ll keep speaking with interested parties and will update the community once a decisions has been made, hopefully with plenty of notice for people to organize their travel plan.

Roadmap

We discussed whether it makes sense to still keep a roadmap out as its not updated all that often and especially with how quickly things are changing in the age of AI. We agreed that its still important to have a document to show where the project is headed in the future, but maybe it doesn’t need to be as granular as it currently is.

Website Redesign

Dani is to address Nasser’s comments and hopefully we can get this released soon.

Gerrit Contributor hangout

Nasser has been taking the lead on these, however, we agreed that we should look to advertise them better and make people aware when they’re happening.

Gitiles

As there where a few recent changes that took quite some prodding to get merged Dani brought up the subject of Gitiles maintainership. Terry confirmed that its very much used within Google because of its powerful APIs but not as much as a code browser and if there are people happy to contribute to the UX we should aim to facilitate them. We’ll review activity on the repo in a few months and decide if anything needs to be done.