[mindjiver]

And I agree to this as well. :)

Our setup is quite special and in that case Gerrit/submodule subscription sort of works. But in hindisght we should have also tried to migrate to some generic packaging system. The reason for going with submodules was that we have ~1000 devs and most of their time they spend in their specific part of the code base. So we created submodules for these discrete parts so they wouldn't be "bothered" by changes to parts of the code base they don't normally access. Also we thought there wasn't so many cross-dependencies between the repos, but this turned out to be false.

We have now started to look at subtree for another product but I hope we can go directly to some packaging/dependency tool instead.