On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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.
I've seen teams where the "build monkey" was the guy who last broke the
build. That guy would have to keep the job until somebody else broke
the build. This provided real incentive to check things out. Team
members groused about having the job but not too much at all, and often
the build monkey *would* implement some system fixes while he was in
the job. Overall I got the impression that team was very happy with
the system as it raised quality overall.
Lisa
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