On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Finnur Thorarinsson <fin...@google.com>wrote:
> If the sheriff load is too much for two people to devote 100% of their time
> to, then there is something wrong with the process.
>
It's clearly too much, given that I hardly see any other sheriffs even
attempt to maintain the rule of "every bot green all the time", which is
what you're supposed to do as sheriff. And when I maintain it, I need to
keep the tree closed for long periods while I deal with the myriad of issues
that come up.
Solving the problem by having the tree open if things "aren't too bad" is
not good enough. Right now I just checked and the purify and valgrind bots
were red. As usual. No sign of anyone looking into them.
Sheriffs are in theory supposed to watch all the perf bots too. Do you? I
don't. I doubt very many people do. There is tons of information available
to sheriffs and too few people to cover it. Someone watching perf, someone
watching purify/valgrind, someone watching layout tests, and someone
watching everything else would be really helpful. Especially if one of
those people was experienced enough to help somebody else doing it for the
first time. The team is growing fast enough that we have a _lot_ of
first-time sheriffs.
PK
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