Dear Gerrit Code Review fellow,

It has been a challenging year, a strange year, for everyone. Most of us confined in our homes and working remotely, finding new ways of dealing with old problems.

Still, we believe the Gerrit Community as a whole has demonstrated an outstanding level of resilience in the face of exceptional difficulties. As far as we are concerned, we have seen no lesser activity, interest, new projects, compared to the previous years. For this, we are thankful to the community we are so strongly proud of being a part of.

In sharing our most sincere vows for happy festivities and a fruitful new year, we wanted to take the opportunity to share with you some of the achievements that made this 2020 worth getting through.

Top-Ten achievements in 2020

1. GerritForge has confirmed to be the world’s largest non-Google contributor to the Gerrit Code Review project.

GerritForge contributed almost a thousand changes merged, over 47 different components in the past 12 months. That is an outstanding achievement confirming the commitment and dedication of the company to the Gerrit Code Review platform and community.

2. Improved Gerrit DevOps Analytics with the ability to process Changes hashtags

The Gerrit DevOps Analytics platform continued to expand its possibilities, with the full support of the parsing of the NoteDb changes and the extractions of precious meta-data, such as the changes hashtags.

3. Driven two major releases of Gerrit Code Review

GerritForge helped driving the release of two major Gerrit Code Review version: Gerrit v3.2 – 1st June and with Ericsson making the Gerrit v3.3 – 1st December. GerritForge is also providing the CI/CD pipeline for the build and validation of the releases and helped the migration to Java 11.

4. Released major security fixes for the whole Gerrit Community, of all Gerrit versions dating back to v2.14

GerritForge coordinated together with Ericsson the release of critical security fixes across 6 different versions of the Gerrit Code Review platform, showing a continued commitment to a secure and scalable adoption of Gerrit in the enterprise.

5. Brand-new Gerrit module cache-chroniclemap, a new high-performance persistent cache in Gerrit v3.3

GerritForge continued its efforts in improving Gerrit’s scalability and performance with the development of a brand-new persistent cache backend powered by ChronicleMap, showing unprecedented low latency and performance on Gerrit v3.3.

6. Introduced the world-first official Open-Source AWS-based Gerrit Code Review Deployment

In a year of remote working and flexible environments, GerritForge provided its contribution to the whole community to help adopting Gerrit in the cloud. The aws-gerrit project is a brand-new production-ready AWS deployment now available for everyone and fully Open-Source. The new project is based on the GitOps best-practices and has been successfully adopted for the testing and validation of Gerrit v3.3.

7. New read-write scalability for Gerrit in High-Availability

GerritForge’s mission to scalability and high-availability (HA) plugin continued with the ability to scale horizontally with multiple R/W Gerrit Servers behind the same load balancer.

8. Improved reliability and flexibility of Gerrit Multi-Site

The Gerrit Multi-Site (MS) plugin has received exciting improvements with the support for geographically distributed R/W Gerrit servers across the globe.

9. Brand-new pull-replication plugin for improving latency and performance of large mono-repos replication.

The need to have Gerrit multi-site brought the request to have faster replication, especially for large mono-repos. GerritForge introduced a new pull-replication plugin project that, used in conjunction with Git Protocol v2, assure top-notch performance in replicating repositories with large number of refs.

10. Helped large-scale OpenSource Community migrating to Gerrit v3

The Eclipse Foundation and the OpenDev platform (by OpenStack), upgraded to the latest version of Gerrit Code Review, thanks to the continuous help and support from GerritForge and the rest of the Gerrit Code Review community.

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All the best, Stay Safe, and we will shake hands again soon!

The GerritForge Team