Could this change [1] be backported to VE release branches (REL1_32, REL1_31, etc)? Without it initializing submodules fails due to the gerrit path change. This may affect other extensions/projects as well, but this VE error has been reported to me by several people. Until recently it had only happened within within specific cloud hosting environments, but now I just got the failure within Travis CI [2] which worked fine yesterday.

[1] https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-VisualEditor/commit/6f6d80...

[2] https://travis-ci.org/enterprisemediawiki/meza/jobs/540726316#L2646-L2652

Thanks, James