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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@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ engineers have a background of working with Mondrian at Google,
there is a strong desire to have the same (or better) feature set
available for Git and AOSP.
Gerrit Code Review started as a simple set of patches to Rietveld,
and was originally built to service AOSP. This quickly turned
into a fork as we added access control features that Guido van
Rossum did not want to see complicating the Rietveld code base. As
the functionality and code were starting to become drastically
different, a different name was needed. Gerrit calls back to the
original namesake of Rietveld, Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch architect.
Gerrit2 is a complete rewrite of the Gerrit fork, completely changing
the implementation from Python on Google App Engine, to Java on a
J2EE servlet container and a SQL database.
* link:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8502904076440714866[Mondrian Code Review On The Web]
* link:http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/[Rietveld - Code Review for Subversion]
* link:http://eagain.net/gitweb/?p=gitosis.git;a=blob;f=README.rst;hb=HEAD[Gitosis README]