The following shows a list of 21 easy fixes to scripts, which will help our build system be able to do basic sanity checks on these scripts after each patch is merged.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=69069&hide_reso...

The only 'hard' one in there is 68797, as it requires setting up lua. This will be easy for people using platforms that have a 'lunatic-python' package they can install with yum/apt.

Plain old patches can be submitted without using Gerrit, or even Git.

https://tools.wmflabs.org/gerrit-patch-uploader/