Add how/why we call Gerrit Gerrit to the background section
Its an unusual name for software. More often than not, a person is named "Gerrit". We should explain that is in fact where the name came from, and what Gerrit2 is about. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
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there is a strong desire to have the same (or better) feature set
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available for Git and AOSP.
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Gerrit Code Review started as a simple set of patches to Rietveld,
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and was originally built to service AOSP. This quickly turned
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into a fork as we added access control features that Guido van
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Rossum did not want to see complicating the Rietveld code base. As
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the functionality and code were starting to become drastically
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different, a different name was needed. Gerrit calls back to the
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original namesake of Rietveld, Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch architect.
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Gerrit2 is a complete rewrite of the Gerrit fork, completely changing
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the implementation from Python on Google App Engine, to Java on a
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J2EE servlet container and a SQL database.
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* link:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502904076440714866[Mondrian Code Review On The Web]
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* link:http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/[Rietveld - Code Review for Subversion]
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* link:http://eagain.net/gitweb/?p=gitosis.git;a=blob;f=README.rst;hb=HEAD[Gitosis README]
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