for Git, JGit and Gerrit ecosystem in particular. I had the pleasure to work
with Shawn for the last 5 years.
exceptional dedication to software quality. I can say that he changed how
Gerrit Code Review will always remain connected with Shawn O. Pearce,
as indicated in this first commit in the gerrit repository:
$ git show 23571ab1fa7fedc262d6c21510614353e9d8a4dc
commit 23571ab1fa7fedc262d6c21510614353e9d8a4dc
Date: Fri Nov 14 16:56:58 2008 -0800
Initial project setup of Gerrit 2
Gerrit 2 is a ground-up rewrite of Gerrit, using GWT (Google Web
Toolkit) for the client side user interface and a Java servlet
based backend.
In the last 10 years, Shawn's vision and goal was to provide a high quality (J)Git
based code review system with a flexible workflow that can be equally used for
open source projects as well as companies and he worked with great dedication
in the last 10 years to achieve that goal.
He inspired all of us to follow him on that way.
Remembering, celebrating and continuing his life and his legacy means
just that: to move this project forward. In the last few years, Shawn's vision was
to move Gerrit to the next level, a pure Git back end and a new UI: version 3.
I would like to suggest to rename Gerrit Code Review starting from version 3 to
Shawn Code Review or just SOP-Review to forever honor Shawn's founding
role in this project.
Thank you Shawn, you will always be in our hearts!
David Ostrovsky
Gerrit Code Review Maintainer