Gerrit User Summit 2026 - About
What is Gerrit Code Review?
Gerrit is a web-based code review system that enables teams to collaborate on Git repositories with powerful patchset based review workflows, fine-grained permissions, and seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines.
If you are new to Gerrit, you may read a Quick Introduction directly from the Google-hosted documentation:
Gerrit is intended to provide a lightweight framework for reviewing every commit before it is accepted into the code base. Changes are uploaded to Gerrit but don’t actually become a part of the project until they’ve been reviewed and accepted.
What is Gerrit User Summit?
Gerrit User Summit is the annual event for everyone in the Gerrit Code Review community — users, admins, contributors, and maintainers from organisations large and small, all coming together to share experience, exchange ideas, and shape the future of the project.
Past summits have featured talks on large-scale Gerrit deployments, plugin development, CI/CD integrations, performance tuning, migration stories, and deep-dives into new Gerrit features. Sessions range from beginner-friendly introductions to advanced technical discussions, making the event valuable whether you’re evaluating Gerrit for the first time or have been running it at scale for years.
With 24+ events held across the USA, UK, Germany, Sweden, and France, the summit has built a strong tradition of open, community-driven knowledge sharing.
Who Attends?
The summit brings together a diverse cross-section of the Gerrit ecosystem:
- Gerrit administrators managing installations at companies of all sizes
- Software engineers using Gerrit day-to-day who want to get more out of it
- Plugin and integration developers building on top of the Gerrit platform
- Gerrit contributors and maintainers working on the core project
- Engineering leaders evaluating or evolving their code review workflow
No matter where you sit in that list, you will find sessions and conversations relevant to you.
Gerrit Community in Numbers
Thanks to the Gerrit Analytics platform contributed by GerritForge to the project, we have up-to-date metrics about the project, automatically extracted from Git commits and reviews on Gerrit.
- 12 years of activity
- 4000+ contributors worldwide from 1000+ organisations
- 74000+ commits
- 310+ releases
- 283 projects in the ecosystem
Organised By
The Gerrit User Summit is organised by volunteer Gerrit community managers who give their time to make the event happen for the community.
Gerrit contributor and JGit maintainer, Matthias has been a central figure in the Gerrit community for over a decade, driving technical progress and community health at SAP and beyond.
Gerrit contributor and community advocate at Qualcomm, Nasser brings the perspective of running Gerrit at scale in a large enterprise environment and has been instrumental in growing the summit's reach.
Gerrit contributor and community manager at GerritForge, Daniele has been organising Gerrit summits and fostering the open-source community around Gerrit Code Review for many years.
All three organisers are volunteering their time to bring the community together. Questions about the event? Reach out on the repo-discuss mailing list.