Did anyway say, Ask about it? I'm sure if you followed up with the one of the project creators (eg: chad) he would have been more than happy to push things along.
I am sorry but I disagree. The question is not whether Chad or one of the Gerrit admin's will help us, because they are super responsive and are always helping us out when there are issues. The question is: what do we (WMF engineers) think is a sensible Git / Gerrit workflow. Creating repo's is part of this workflow. I believe in decentralized teams and our software should support this.
A workflow where engineers have to bug a Gerrit admin to do something is a broken workflow: * You will always bug an admin at the wrong time * It always takes more time to bug somebody than DIY, we are really losing productive hours on issues like this. * We are professional engineers, and every engineer should know how to create a repo in Gerrit. * Bugging an engineer (in general) is not a scalable workflow and we should really move away from these kind of of accepted practises.
We need to stop focusing on what Gerrit can / cannot do and we need to start drafting out team-specific workflows on how we want to use Git / Gerrit.
Diederik