[Development] Moving to Gerrit 2.16.9

[Holger Freyther]

> On 28. Jun 2019, at 00:57, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, 27 June 2019 08:24:40 PDT Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>> 27.06.2019, 18:12, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com>:
>>> On Thursday, 27 June 2019 07:10:36 PDT Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
>>>> The only real challenge was upgrading Bazel, since every Gerrit version
>>>> seems to only compile with one exact Bazel version (roughly).
>>> 
>>> Argument against home-cooked, not-widely-used build systems right here.
>> 
>> This argument is more about imprecise build instructions than that.
> 
> 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. :}