Document why drafts are disabled

Not everyone knows the history here so give some breadcrumbs.

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Clark Boylan 2020-03-05 12:36:33 -08:00 committed by Andreas Jaeger
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@ -956,7 +956,11 @@ can submit a change to Gerrit and mark it as "Work in Progress" (WIP).
.. note::
The OpenDev Gerrit system does not support drafts, use
"Work in Progress" instead.
"Work in Progress" instead. Draft changes have been disabled because
people assume they are private when they are not. They also create
confusion if child changes are not drafts. Additionally it is
difficult to run CI on them. It is better to assume changes are public
and mark the not yet ready state.
To do so, after submitting a change to Gerrit in usual way (``git review``),
You should go to Gerrit, and do `Code Review`_ of your own change while