(resending to chromium-dev) Sheriffing the PST time zone is usually the worst. We could experiment with tweaking the scheduling algorithm to have two PST sheriffs and one non-PST sheriff per shift.
Other than that -- fixing flaky tests would go a long way to making the job easier. Right now out of 12 failing bots, only 1 is a true failure. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Stuart Morgan > <stuartmor...@google.com>wrote: > >> If we end up actually having four at a time that seems likely to be >> worse than two: either four people are doing nothing but sheriffing, >> which there is probably not enough work for, or all four people are >> more likely to think that someone else is probably watching and they >> can do something else. > > > I can only say that in my own sheriffing experience that this is utterly > untrue, and having two people at once is amazingly helpful since we can > track down different problem areas; one working on purify and valgrind > errors while another works on layout tests. There has never been a time in > such cases where we both did nothing because we thought the other person was > working on it; we were always pinging each other and dividing work on the > fly. > > I don't think Chromium team members are so irresponsible that they would > not work out some system in such cases. And part of the point is that it > would be nice to be able to get a _little_ bit of work done on the days > you're sheriffing, or go to lunch, or whatever. > > PK > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev > -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
