Gerrit prevents upstreaming patches from others

[jan iversen]

> Sorry, I still don’t see where the additional step is?
> 
you submit the patch to gerrit, that does not put it into our core repo, but only to the gerrit review repo. In order to merge the patch into our core repo(typically master) a committer, needs to hit merge in gerrit, then will mark the patch as merged in gerrit, and commit it to the master repo.

the committer that does the merge becomes the commiter in git, the author in our core repo becomes:
1) gerrit author, if gerrit committer == committer who does the merge
2) else gerrit committer.

rgds
jan i