>> I try to mentor as many bugs as possible. My ideal workflow would be to >> grant r+, suggest a try: string, and set checkin-needed in a single act, >> without having to determine whether the contributor has try access and/or >> editbugs. If we already have people scanning for checkin-needed and looking >> for try pushes, it seems pretty logical to have them just trigger any >> missing pushes.
Or, alternatively, attempt to automate this with Autoland (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657828). I think we should lean on that for this use case, personally. On 21/05/2014 3:29 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> On Wed 21 May 2014 08:42:28 AM PDT, Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: >>> Level 1 - Try/User/Incubator Access >>> Because this is all it gives, this sort of access can be given out >> generously to anyone who would find it convenient when helping us or >> working on a developer's personal project, without worrying about them >> affecting core code. In other words, the target audience for this sort of >> access might be defined as "friends of and collaborators with Mozilla". >>> >>> At least to me, that reads as "vouch early and vouch often!". Something >> something...teach a man to fish...something something... :) >> >> I think the quote you're looking for is, "if you teach a man to fish, >> you'd better teach him how to gut and clean the fish at the same time." >> Otherwise you'll be forever stuck doing it for him. >> > > Is it really the most effective learning experience and use of everyone's > time to make first-patch contributors get set up with try access? > > I try to mentor as many bugs as possible. My ideal workflow would be to > grant r+, suggest a try: string, and set checkin-needed in a single act, > without having to determine whether the contributor has try access and/or > editbugs. If we already have people scanning for checkin-needed and looking > for try pushes, it seems pretty logical to have them just trigger any > missing pushes. > > bholley > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
