FYI: Status of gdb usage of gerrit

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>]

The summary is that gdb will no longer use gerrit because of:

* lack of cover letters
* lack of mail threading for patch series

Please read this for the status update:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-11/msg00749.html

For me neither of these items are as important to me as:

* accurate patch tracking
* UI for side-by-side review and commenting
* patch version tracking with patch IDs (changeset IDs)
* detailed comment tracking to ensure that all comments are
  reviewed for all versions
* ability to use git to fetch a patch and test it.

You can work around the lack of a cover letter by using
an empty commit with a message.

You can work around the lack of mail threading for patch
series by using a subject prefix that's numbered like
a series e.g. "nodelete 1/12: Introduce 
DL_LOOKUP_FOR_RELOCATE flag for _dl_lookup_symbol_x"
Then you can go through your mail looking for nodelete
1-12.

I'm happy to hear any feedback those of you have about
working with gerrit.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.