Sounds like a great idea to me! Gavin
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Clint Talbert <[email protected]> wrote: > When we moved to the "inbound" model of tree management, the Tree Sheriffs > became a crucial part of our engineering infrastructure. The primary > responsibility of the Sheriffs is and will always be to aid developers to > easily, quickly, and seamlessly land their code in the proper location(s) > and ensure that code does not break our automated tests. In the service of > this objective, the Sheriffs work closely with the larger engineering > organization to create and enforce landing policies that increase > productivity while maintaining an efficient and robust automated testing > system. Beyond the policy role, they have also become shepherds of > automation quality by monitoring intermittent failures, performing uplifts > and merges, and identifying poorly performing automation machines. This role > has proven successful, and it feels like it is time to propose a formal > module for the Tree Sheriffs in the larger context of the Activities Module. > > Ed Morley(edmorley)will be module owner for Tree Sheriffing. > > The peers will be Ryan VanderMeulen (RyanVM), Phil Ringnalda (Philor), > Carsten Book (Tomcat), and Wes Kocher (KWierso). > > The living document of Sheriff roles and responsibilities will be kept up to > date on this wiki page [1] and will certainly change over time as our > organization and our automation continues to expand. But this module and > this document will help give the sheriffs a platform to work from for future > changes. > > Please congratulate them all on a job well done this last year, and let me > know if you have any feedback concerning creating this new module. > > Thanks, > > Clint > > [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
