Design proposal: Zoekt-based code search for Gerrit

[Ajay Gupta]

Hi,

I’ve uploaded a design proposal for adding Zoekt-based code search to Gerrit:

  613581: Add design doc for Zoekt-based code search | https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/homepage/+/613581

The proposal describes a Gerrit-aware search platform where Gerrit remains the identity and access-control boundary. Users search only through Gerrit, and the search backend receives queries together with a precomputed project/ref scope, so results respect Gerrit read permissions without exposing the underlying search engine directly.

  At a high level, the design proposes:

  * a Gerrit-side search plugin as the only user-facing entry point;
  * a visibility-awareness component that derives readable project/ref scope from Gerrit ACLs;
  * an independent, horizontally scalable search platform built around a gateway, search instances, indexing pipeline, artifact store, and control plane;

Comments and feedback are welcome.

Thanks,
Ajay