Notice: Since this question was origionally asked, I’ve released the delete project plugin, and handed it off to the more active Gerrit devs. If you are using Gerrit >= 2.7, I’d recommend this route. If not, read on.
There isn’t a method to delete projects from Gerrit currently. It must be done by hand. This is the most-requested feature of Gerrit.
There are two steps to delete a project by hand:
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Delete the repository from the server’s file system
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Delete any references of the repository from the database. The tables to purge depend on the version of Gerrit you are running – the projects table was removed in 2.2.0 for example.
If you’re deleting a project on an active Gerrit server, you should consider shuting down Gerrit before.