build: switch source archive to xz compression

Mention gerrit in the README

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 ChronoSync is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
-version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See `COPYING.md
+<https://github.com/named-data/ChronoSync/blob/master/COPYING.md>`__ for details.