+1
Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 06:29 PM 12/7/2005 -0800, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
pje said that if we had better tools and possibly
organizational changes, sheriff wouldn't be needed, but he did not seem
to deny the need currently.
That's because I'm not in a position to reasonably argue that you and
Bear don't need or want something you've said you need or want. :)
I'm more than willing to do my time as sheriff, but that's not quite
the same thing as saying we *need* one.
To be honest, I think we'd achieve more progress if, when somebody
complains about the build being broken, you or Bear simply pointed
them to whoever caused the problem. From there, we could simply let
the forces of natural selection and social pressure take over. :)
Putting a sheriff between the offenders and the offendees just enables
the offenders' dysfunctional behavior - it allows people in the
current case to blame the sheriff instead of themselves, and to
perhaps ignore the impact on other people. If they are directly
subjected to the complaints, however, then they can't hide behind the
idea that it's just you and Bear being picky or something.
The rotation seems like a nice theory to solve the same issue, but in
practice it seems unlikely that any given sheriff-of-the-day is going
to be particularly enthusiastic about confronting such issues. After
all, why argue today when you can let it slide till tomorrow? This
will just further exacerbate the problem of a lack of social pressure
and continue to enable the idea that this is just bureaucracy or
whatever excuses are being used.
My take, then, is that we need not a rotating "build sheriff" but a
rotating "tinderbox wrangler". The difference being that the former
is expected to enforce rules, and the latter is a co-ordinator for
various technical issues and a temporary replacement for better
monitoring tools in certain areas. I don't mind being a tinderbox
wrangler, but I really don't want to be a sheriff.
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