I think that sounds like a really good idea, and I can see my self using that when touching cross platform code.
Kenneth On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > As the project grows, we need to scale our processes to match. In > large part, that means automating as much work as possible. > Commit-queue has done a good job of solving the "land patches from > non-committers efficiently" problem, effectively removing that as a > pain point. I'd like to ask you to open your hearts and your minds to > the idea of automating more of our processes. > > Currently, I see the biggest pain-point in our process as the > always-burgeoning pending-review list. It's difficult to automate the > process of accepting good patches because that requires attention from > experts. Instead, I think we should make it easier to reject bad > patches. As a first step, I've started extending bugzilla-tool to be > a try server in <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31422>. > Here's how this might work: > > 1) Contributor posts patch for review. > 2) Committer marks patch with the try? flag. > 3) The try-queue downloads, applies, builds, and tests the patch. > 4) If all systems are go, the try-queue marks the patch as try+. > Otherwise, it marks the patch as try- with an explanation of what went > wrong. > > The try-queue will be purely optional and advisory. Hopefully a try- > notation will encourage the contributor to post a new version of the > patch that passes the try-queue. > > Further down the road, one can also imagine another bot that automates > step (2) by scanning the pending-review list for untried patches and > marking them as try? when the try-queue has unused bandwidth. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > -- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen Technical Lead / Software Engineer Qt Labs Americas, Nokia Technology Institute, INdT Phone +55 81 8895 6002 / E-mail kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
