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+[title]
+Hi. I'm Monty This is Jim.
+
+[Lineage]
+Our build infrasturcture and many of its philosophies come from:
+MySQL - Launchpad/bzr
+Drizzle - gated trunk, using all of the launchpad features
+OpenStack - automated gated trunk via tarmac
+
+[gated trunk]
+So with openStack, we did automated checks of every proposed commit through
+jenkins and everything was happy
+
+[Git Revolt]
+Then we had a revolt, because the developers wanted to use git.
+Launchpad has no git support (or in-line code reviews)
+Github's pull-request have no approval state 
+
+[Enter Gerrit]
+Gerrit, from google used by android, has all of the things we needed
+Except for Launchpad integration
+So we added it
+
+[Bug Integration]
+Gerrit review launchpad links on bug metions
+Gerrit topics set from bugs
+
+[Launchpad side]
+Gerrit sends bug control emails with links to the review and the commit
+State changes- in progress when review is submitted. Fix committed when
+patch is accepted
+
+[Blueprint Integration]
+Blueprint links in commit messages
+Topics set from blueprint mentions
+
+[Launchpad side]
+Inject information on commits to blueprints just like bugs
+Have to use the whiteboard
+Link to review - but also to the general gerrit topic, since a blueprint
+might have more than one branch
+
+[SSO]
+Gerrit and Jenkins both use Launchpad OpenID for auth
+
+[Jenkins Integration]
+Gerrit has deep jenkins integration. Listens on an ssh stream and takes
+active action. Posts back to the review with jenkins links on success or
+failure
+
+[Gerrit Verification]
+Jenkins fills the gerrit role of verifier.
+In addition to being approved or denied, a given change can be verified as
+working or not.
+
+[Feature REquest time]
+Subscribably event triggers
+Verification status
+launchpadlib api bindings in non-python
+
+[While we're at it]
+Foreign merge props - bugs were cool, lots of people do code review
+elsewhere
+mirrored branches
+Branch/merge prop integration with blueprints
+Structured info in blueprints
+
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