I think it would be a good idea to ensure that there is at least someone on call to help new gardeners if they have questions or find themselves in a mess. I know I just asked dglazkov whenever I wasn't sure what to do, but he'd probably appreciate not being the only designated knowledgeable person. :-) On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Glenn Wilson <gwil...@chromium.org> wrote:
> I'll take the action item to remove anyone in the rotation who is not > actively working on Webkit / is not a committer. > > In the past, I've floated the idea in the past of having a "Webkit deputy" > who helps the gardener keep the canary green. I'm not sure if that would > help, though. > > Regards, > Glenn > > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM, David Levin <le...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> I find that being a WebKit gardener is always dancing on a minefield >> regardless of my familiarity with the WebKit code base. Look at yesterday >> for an example. >> In addition, we have several gardeners who are not actively working on >> WebKit (amanda@ has 0 WebKit commits, pinkerton@ has a few all in 2008). >> >> Lastly, can we add anyone to the rotation who has ideas how WebKit >> gardeners should/can do their job better? (This will help them in getting >> more ideas.) >> >> Dave >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Dimitri Glazkov >> <dglaz...@chromium.org>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mike Pinkerton <pinker...@chromium.org> >>> wrote: >>> >> It is hard to be a WebKit gardener if you do not have WebKit commit >>> access. >>> >> Sometimes the gardener has to commit a quick bustage fix upstream or >>> roll >>> >> back a fellow Chromium committers change to WebKit. >>> >> -Darin >>> > >>> > Correct, it is hard, but many/most of us who are webkit >>> > sheriffs/gardeners are not webkit committers (for example, the entire >>> > mac group). I don't understand your point. Are you saying that only >>> > webkit committers should be on the webkit sheriff rotation? >>> >>> In my experience, better familiarity with WebKit code base is a huge >>> advantage for a gardener. I am almost tempted to say that if you're >>> not actively working on WebKit, being a gardener will be a foreign and >>> "dancing-on-a-minefield"-type task. >>> >>> :DG< >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---