Engineering Steering Committee Meetings, July 31, 2025

[Luca Milanesio]

Please find below the executive summary of the ESC Meeting Minutes of July 31, 2025. Apologies for the delayed publication.
See the full minutes at [1].

Luca.

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Engineering Steering Committee Meetings, July 31, 2025
Participants: Edwin Kempin [EK], Luca Milanesio [LM], Saša Živkov [SZ]
Next meeting: September 24, 2025

Executive Summary
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A critical Gerrit migration to Bazel 8 is needed to fix compatibility issues with JGit. Gerritforge offered to lead the effort with Google providing reviews. The immediate next step is to add more details to the associated issue 339767728.
Two key community events were announced: a Git Mini Summit in Amsterdam on August 28th and a GerritMeet at Google’s Munich HQ on November 19th. The Munich event is notable as Google will unveil a new open-source MCP server, which has generated significant interest.
The future of AI-powered code review was discussed, centered on the experimental “help me review” feature. Google confirmed ongoing internal development and welcomed collaboration to prevent duplicated work. A native chat functionality was also proposed to streamline AI integration in the future.

[1] https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2025-07-31-esc-minutes.html