[zeotroph]

There is one thing I miss on Gerrit when you push a stack of commits: A central place to talk about the whole of the stack, not just individual commits. This "big picture", but still technical stuff, too often happens in the issue tracker. But where to place it, I have no idea. This stack is just too ephemeral and and can be completely different on the next push.

[lima]

Many teams use topics for this.

[aseipp]

Yeah, but you can't really discuss the topic itself, right?

I do think this is a weakness of Gerrit. It doesn't really capture "big picture" stuff nearly so well. At least on GH you can read the top-level comment, which is independent of the commits inside it. Most of the time I was deep in Gerrit doing review or writing patches, it was because the architectural decisions had already been made elsewhere.

I guess it's one of the tradeoffs to Gerrit only being a code review tool. Phabricator also didn't suffer from this so much because you could just create a ticket to discuss things in the exact same space. Gerrit is amazingly extensible though so plugging this in is definitely possible, at least.