[Development] Moving to Gerrit 2.16.9

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 30/06/2019 10.10, Holger Freyther wrote:
> On 28. Jun 2019, at 00:57, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> In this particular case, Google loves to use Bazel. Everyone else hates that 
>> they do.
>>
>> Ask anyone trying to package Tensorflow.
> 
> Some Ex-Googlers like it too. It seems there is a disconnect between
> the SaaS/PaaS/CD world and where some of us come from with traditional
> packaging of binaries. :}

Indeed. Having been exposed to it once, I can understand where a
closed-source company could find Bazel attractive, but it was a
*horrible* fit for open source projects at the time. I don't know how
much it has improved, though, given Google, I would suspect "not much".

-- 
Matthew