Milanesio - Getting started with Gerrit

Luca Milanesio is the Director and cofounder of GerritForge, the leading Git and Gerrit competence center for the enterprise. His background includes over 20 years of experience in development management, software configuration management, and software development lifecycle in large enterprises worldwide. Just prior to GerritForge LLP, Luca was the Technical Director and Senior Product Executive of the Security and Compliance platform for Electronic Payments at Primeur in Italy and UK. Since starting GerritForge LLP, Luca contributed to the Gerrit community and allowed the introduction of enterprise Code Review workflow in large enterprises worldwide including major telecoms, banks, and industries.

Luca Milanesio is the author of Git Patterns and Anti-Patterns , an essential guide for scaling Git to the enterprise with 16 patterns and anti-patterns, including Hybrid SCM, Git champions, blessed repository, per-feature topic branches, and ALM integration.

I would like to thank Shawn Pearce and Google Inc. for having created and funded the Gerrit Code Review project, which allowed the Android operating system to be really the result of a collaborative effort of multiple companies and developers, and inspired many more development teams in the adoption of Code Review. Many thanks to the people that worked around the writing and publication of this book: Edwin and Fredrik for the extensive content review, Sarah for the copyediting, Mohammed the Commissioning Editor, Amigya the Project Coordinator, and all the other Packt staff that participated in the making of this book.

I would like to give a special thanks, and dedicate this book to my beloved wife Emilija and my daughter Nina, who have inspired and supported me throughout the days and nights while writing, and for making every single day of my life worth living.

Edwin Kempin is one of the maintainers of the Gerrit Code Review project. He joined the Gerrit development in 2010.

Since 2004 Edwin is working as a software engineer at SAP AG. As a member of the Java development infrastructure team, his main focus is the adoption of Git and Gerrit at SAP AG.

I would like to thank the Gerrit community for all the fantastic collaboration. Each day its exciting to work on this project!

Fredrik Luthander has been working with software configuration management since 2000 and with Gerrit since 2009. He has worked mainly as an SCM systems admin and trainer. He has also been involved in designing and teaching/rolling out CM practices with both large and small software projects.

Fredrik is currently a self-employed SCM consultant, with prior experience from two enterprise-sized companies and their software projects. He is involved as a contributor in the Gerrit open source project since 2010.

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Preface

Today, developing software is more than a globally distributed activity: agile methodologies that worked well enough with co-located teams, need to be empowered with additional tools, in order to allow the developers to share, discuss, and cooperate more socially.

With the rise of the adoption of Git, a version control system designed by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for the Linux open source project, major steps have been made to get developers to work and share code in a more open way. GitHub and Gerrit Code Review are the cornerstones of the social coding revolution, having driven respectively the success of the most popular open source code repository and the development of Android, the most successful mobile OS open source project.

This book looks at the Code Review workflow's benefits in an agile development team, and provides simple steps for leveraging them. It guides through the installation steps of Gerrit by showing the most typical setup and configuration schemes used in private networks and over the Internet. It includes a simple set of recipes and samples on how to configure and use it in conjunction with your existing authentication and continuous integration systems. By following this book's instruction, you will be able to install a fully configured Gerrit server ready to be used for your development team.

You will also learn how to effectively use Gerrit with GitHub, in order to have a more consistent Code Review, in addition to the social collaboration tools provided by the GitHub platform. Using the two tools together, you will be able to reuse your existing accounts and integrate your GitHub community into the development lifecycle, keeping in touch with external contributors.