Mostly just for context...the current Gerrit administrators were mostly chosen by Chad (the defacto owner of Gerrit). If you had a reasonable need and were well trusted, he'd make you an admin.
In addition to that it looks like all of the release engineering team were also added.
Do you think the list of admins should be cleaned up or expanded? Is the list as it stands ok in your view?
We should establish a clear process and set of criteria for becoming a Gerrit admin. Cleaning up the process for getting +2 on MediaWiki does not have to be blocked on that, though.
For the record: the ops team (or better, whoever is in the ldap/ops group) is a gerrit administrator.
This makes sense for various reasons, the main being probably we have privileged access to the servers anyways.
I don't see a big issue with opsen automatically being gerrit admins, but I don't see much of a reason for it either. The technical ability of opsen to directly access and manipulate data is not equivalent to them being allowed to, and expected to, make changes to the data (such as granting gerrit access). In my mind, being a gerrit admin is not just a permission, it's a role. And the question is if opsen should and want to fill this role per default.