Gerrit Community Managers - Meeting minutes, October 23rd, 2025

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Daniele Sassoli

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Oct 27, 2025, 5:59:22 AMOct 27
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The meeting minutes for the Gerrit Community Managers of the 23rd of October have been published at [1].

These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, and, earlier this year, we made a commitmet to share relevant updates.

Here is a brief summary of the key points and announcements:

  • Gerrit User Summit 2025: The recent summit was a great success, featuring valuable cross-project conversations with members from the broader Git ecosystem (GitLab, GitButler, JJ project).

  • Future Planning: Discussions have begun for a more integrated Git ecosystem conference in 2026 (reminiscent of GitTogether), a potential beginners' hackathon in Germany, and Git/Gerrit's official attendance at FOSDEM.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Mark your calendars for the next community meetup at the Google Munich office on November 19th. While the GDG page is sold out, a few spots remain on the Meetup.com event page. A formal announcement will follow next week.

  • Project Updates: Progress continues on the Gerrit website redesign, and there are plans to revisit the project's logo and branding due to low recognition of "Diffy."

Thanks,
Dani on behalf of the Gerrit Community Managers

[1] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2025-10-23-cm-minutes.html

Luca Milanesio

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Oct 27, 2025, 6:18:55 PMOct 27
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Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

The same doesn’t happen for projects like GitLab, GitHub or even Jenkins or Bazel. Their logos is clearly identifiable with the project and viceversa.
Hope we can trigger a constructive conversation on how to “improve” Diffy presence and making it more recognised as the Gerrit logo.

Luca.

Thanks,
Dani on behalf of the Gerrit Community Managers

[1] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2025-10-23-cm-minutes.html



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Daniele Sassoli

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Oct 28, 2025, 5:23:28 AMOct 28
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On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 22:18:55 UTC lucamilanesio wrote:

On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:59, Daniele Sassoli <daniele...@gmail.com> wrote:

The meeting minutes for the Gerrit Community Managers of the 23rd of October have been published at [1].

These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, and, earlier this year, we made a commitmet to share relevant updates.

Here is a brief summary of the key points and announcements:

  • Gerrit User Summit 2025: The recent summit was a great success, featuring valuable cross-project conversations with members from the broader Git ecosystem (GitLab, GitButler, JJ project).

  • Future Planning: Discussions have begun for a more integrated Git ecosystem conference in 2026 (reminiscent of GitTogether), a potential beginners' hackathon in Germany, and Git/Gerrit's official attendance at FOSDEM.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Mark your calendars for the next community meetup at the Google Munich office on November 19th. While the GDG page is sold out, a few spots remain on the Meetup.com event page. A formal announcement will follow next week.

  • Project Updates: Progress continues on the Gerrit website redesign, and there are plans to revisit the project's logo and branding due to low recognition of "Diffy."

Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

The same doesn’t happen for projects like GitLab, GitHub or even Jenkins or Bazel. Their logos is clearly identifiable with the project and viceversa.
Hope we can trigger a constructive conversation on how to “improve” Diffy presence and making it more recognised as the Gerrit logo.

When you look at it, Diffy is not present anywhere, literally on the current homepage you need to scroll to the footer to see a tiny represetantion of it.
gerrit-review that use Diffy in the top left of the screen, but people are free to customise that as they wish and usually people use their own project/foundation logo, not helping associating Diffy with Gerrit.

The new gerritcodereview design I proposed does put it right in the middle of the homepage, I guess that's a start. 

David Åkerman

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Oct 28, 2025, 12:02:16 PMOct 28
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On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 10:23:28 AM UTC+1 Daniele Sassoli wrote:
On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 22:18:55 UTC lucamilanesio wrote:

On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:59, Daniele Sassoli <daniele...@gmail.com> wrote:

The meeting minutes for the Gerrit Community Managers of the 23rd of October have been published at [1].

These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, and, earlier this year, we made a commitmet to share relevant updates.

Here is a brief summary of the key points and announcements:

  • Gerrit User Summit 2025: The recent summit was a great success, featuring valuable cross-project conversations with members from the broader Git ecosystem (GitLab, GitButler, JJ project).

  • Future Planning: Discussions have begun for a more integrated Git ecosystem conference in 2026 (reminiscent of GitTogether), a potential beginners' hackathon in Germany, and Git/Gerrit's official attendance at FOSDEM.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Mark your calendars for the next community meetup at the Google Munich office on November 19th. While the GDG page is sold out, a few spots remain on the Meetup.com event page. A formal announcement will follow next week.

  • Project Updates: Progress continues on the Gerrit website redesign, and there are plans to revisit the project's logo and branding due to low recognition of "Diffy."

Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

The same doesn’t happen for projects like GitLab, GitHub or even Jenkins or Bazel. Their logos is clearly identifiable with the project and viceversa.
Hope we can trigger a constructive conversation on how to “improve” Diffy presence and making it more recognised as the Gerrit logo.

When you look at it, Diffy is not present anywhere, literally on the current homepage you need to scroll to the footer to see a tiny represetantion of it.
gerrit-review that use Diffy in the top left of the screen, but people are free to customise that as they wish and usually people use their own project/foundation logo, not helping associating Diffy with Gerrit.

Also the color of Diffy is very different from the theme of a default Gerrit instance which is gray with with mostly some green and red, and the favicon which is red and green. The only thing that suggest that Diffy is related to Gerrit at first glance is the name and the + and - on the headband.

Luca Milanesio

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Oct 28, 2025, 2:48:13 PMOct 28
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On 28 Oct 2025, at 16:02, David Åkerman <david....@axis.com> wrote:


On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 10:23:28 AM UTC+1 Daniele Sassoli wrote:
On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 22:18:55 UTC lucamilanesio wrote:

On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:59, Daniele Sassoli <daniele...@gmail.com> wrote:

The meeting minutes for the Gerrit Community Managers of the 23rd of October have been published at [1].

These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, and, earlier this year, we made a commitmet to share relevant updates.

Here is a brief summary of the key points and announcements:

  • Gerrit User Summit 2025: The recent summit was a great success, featuring valuable cross-project conversations with members from the broader Git ecosystem (GitLab, GitButler, JJ project).

  • Future Planning: Discussions have begun for a more integrated Git ecosystem conference in 2026 (reminiscent of GitTogether), a potential beginners' hackathon in Germany, and Git/Gerrit's official attendance at FOSDEM.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Mark your calendars for the next community meetup at the Google Munich office on November 19th. While the GDG page is sold out, a few spots remain on the Meetup.com event page. A formal announcement will follow next week.

  • Project Updates: Progress continues on the Gerrit website redesign, and there are plans to revisit the project's logo and branding due to low recognition of "Diffy."

Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

The same doesn’t happen for projects like GitLab, GitHub or even Jenkins or Bazel. Their logos is clearly identifiable with the project and viceversa.
Hope we can trigger a constructive conversation on how to “improve” Diffy presence and making it more recognised as the Gerrit logo.

When you look at it, Diffy is not present anywhere, literally on the current homepage you need to scroll to the footer to see a tiny represetantion of it.
gerrit-review that use Diffy in the top left of the screen, but people are free to customise that as they wish and usually people use their own project/foundation logo, not helping associating Diffy with Gerrit.

Also the color of Diffy is very different from the theme of a default Gerrit instance which is gray with with mostly some green and red, and the favicon which is red and green. The only thing that suggest that Diffy is related to Gerrit at first glance is the name and the + and - on the headband.

Agreed, lastly, Diffy isn’t anywhere in the UI.

If you use GitHub or GitLab, the logo is on the top-left corner, always. In Gerrit, nowhere.
I added it to the first splash you see when you start the Docker container, that’s it !

We need a “reduced” version of Diffy with:

a) Less colours
b) Less details
c) Can be scaled down easily
d) Can be also used as favicon

Luca. 

The new gerritcodereview design I proposed does put it right in the middle of the homepage, I guess that's a start. 

Luca.

Thanks,
Dani on behalf of the Gerrit Community Managers

[1] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2025-10-23-cm-minutes.html



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Sven Selberg

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Oct 29, 2025, 3:58:58 AMOct 29
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On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 7:48:13 PM UTC+1 Luca Milanesio wrote:
On 28 Oct 2025, at 16:02, David Åkerman <david....@axis.com> wrote:


On Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 10:23:28 AM UTC+1 Daniele Sassoli wrote:
On Monday, 27 October 2025 at 22:18:55 UTC lucamilanesio wrote:

On 27 Oct 2025, at 09:59, Daniele Sassoli <daniele...@gmail.com> wrote:

The meeting minutes for the Gerrit Community Managers of the 23rd of October have been published at [1].

These catch-ups have been happening regularly every 2 weeks for many years, and, earlier this year, we made a commitmet to share relevant updates.

Here is a brief summary of the key points and announcements:

  • Gerrit User Summit 2025: The recent summit was a great success, featuring valuable cross-project conversations with members from the broader Git ecosystem (GitLab, GitButler, JJ project).

  • Future Planning: Discussions have begun for a more integrated Git ecosystem conference in 2026 (reminiscent of GitTogether), a potential beginners' hackathon in Germany, and Git/Gerrit's official attendance at FOSDEM.

  • Upcoming Meetup: Mark your calendars for the next community meetup at the Google Munich office on November 19th. While the GDG page is sold out, a few spots remain on the Meetup.com event page. A formal announcement will follow next week.

  • Project Updates: Progress continues on the Gerrit website redesign, and there are plans to revisit the project's logo and branding due to low recognition of "Diffy."

Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

The same doesn’t happeIssues/Incidentsn for projects like GitLab, GitHub or even Jenkins or Bazel. Their logos is clearly identifiable with the project and viceversa.
Hope we can trigger a constructive conversation on how to “improve” Diffy presence and making it more recognised as the Gerrit logo.
When you look at it, Diffy is not present anywhere, literally on the current homepage you need to scroll to the footer to see a tiny represetantion of it.
gerrit-review that use Diffy in the top left of the screen, but people are free to customise that as they wish and usually people use their own project/foundation logo, not helping associating Diffy with Gerrit.

Also the color of Diffy is very different from the theme of a default Gerrit instance which is gray with with mostly some green and red, and the favicon which is red and green. The only thing that suggest that Diffy is related to Gerrit at first glance is the name and the + and - on the headband.
Agreed, lastly, Diffy isn’t anywhere in the UI.

If you use GitHub or GitLab, the logo is on the top-left corner, always. In Gerrit, nowhere.
I added it to the first splash you see when you start the Docker container, that’s it !

We need a “reduced” version of Diffy with:

a) Less colours
b) Less details
c) Can be scaled down easily
d) Can be also used as favicon

My 5 cents is that GerritForge have used a number of Diffy-variants that I personally like a lot and that I think would make fine, recognizable, project logos while paying homage to the "original" diffy.

Luca Milanesio

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Oct 29, 2025, 4:26:36 AMOct 29
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Could we run a simple poll for the next 2 weeks with the ones we came up with, and let the community decide?

Luca.

Luca Milanesio

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Nov 1, 2025, 5:43:15 AMNov 1
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As an example of difficult rendering of Diffy, see the following presentation from BMW where they talk about their development infrastructure, which includes Gerrit at [3].

I’m reporting here below the zoomed in picture:

Screenshot 2025-11-01 at 09.40.46.png


GitHub, EngFlow, Zuul, Ansible, SonarQuote, Elastic, they are all very visible.
What about Gerrit? It’s so hard to render it in white and it’s hardly recognisable.


Could we run a simple poll for the next 2 weeks with the ones we came up with, and let the community decide?

What do you think? Like the idea?

HTH

Sven Selberg

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Nov 3, 2025, 2:21:11 AMNov 3
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Sounds like a good plan.

/Sven

David Åkerman

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Nov 3, 2025, 4:28:15 AMNov 3
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 I agree. Let us know when and where to vote on the poll.

David.

Antoine Musso

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Nov 3, 2025, 10:57:17 AMNov 3
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Le 27/10/2025 à 23:18, Luca Milanesio a écrit :
Just a remark on a “real life test” on how much the “Diffy” logo is recognised as “Gerrit Code Review”: if you watch the video of my keynote on Gerrit Code Review at the OpenInfra Summit 2025 [2], you can clearly see that only a couple of hands were raised when I asked what is Diffy and to which project is associated with. When I asked who knows what is Gerrit Code Review, hundreds of hands were raised, which is surprising. That means that only 1-2% of people using Gerrit actually recognises it from its logo.

I echo this. Diffy is barely known to us.

On the favicon we used the --++ square logo.
In our bug tracker, Gerrit is associated with the git logo turned green https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/330/ . We use the same on our internal Slack.
Our Gerrit instance (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/) uses the same logo enclosed with the 3 colors of the Wikimedia movement (blue,green,red).

Delphine Carlson from Google introduced a logo proposal back in 2022. The thread https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/AJW0qzEH_sY/m/V-A2fZeVCQAJ the logo looked like:

  

I kind of liked it cause it looked similar to the -- ++ that is currently on the Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_(software) and it used a pinkish color which, I think, make it stand out compared to the usual blue/green/red :-]

 I know that was dismissed at the time, but I haven't found the poll results or the reasons for the dismissal.

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