One thing I've been thinking about his adding many more automatic tree closure on failure. This way the sheriff *have* to react.
I guess I'll do it sooner than later. The downside is when want to tolerate redness; example, the purify bot currently dies because of lack of memory (yay!) I'll find out a way to work around that. M-A On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Amanda Walker<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Peter Kasting<[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm pretty frustrated with this week's tree. Last Thursday and Friday Tim >> and I kept *everything* green at almost all times. This week there's been >> constant redness, huge swaths of orange on the WebKit LayoutTest bots, and >> the tree's been open much of that time. I have done a few things to help >> but I feel like I can either let the tree be red or be a full-time sheriff. >> That's not how it should be. > > One thing that my monday/tuesday stint as webkit sheriff brought to > mind was that perhaps we need to start having weekend sheriffs, or > somehow reinforce the "even if no sheriff is sitting in IRC, nobody's > off the hook for redness" message... > >> I wrote about what both sheriffs and others need to do at all times a week >> and a half ago. Maybe nobody read my mail because it was too long, or maybe >> just nobody cares about the tree being in good shape. It's disappointing. > > I don't think "nobody read my mail" or "nobody cares" are accurate. I > suspect it's more a matter of "well, I didn't touch what broke, so > it's not my priority." It would be nice to get back to our older team > culture of "when the tree breaks, it's everyone's problem until it's > fixed", with the sheriff being a backstop. I'm not sure how to do > that except to keep beating the drum for a while. > > --Amanda > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
