I think the list shrunk since I posted :-) but it's still a bit long. On 23 September 2010 18:27, Jonathan Lange <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Monty Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >>> If you own the branch, it's your responsibility to get it landed or to >>> abandon it. Even if you don't have commit privileges, it's your >>> responsibility to find someone who does and get them to do it. >> >> FWIW, we've had really good luck in Drizzle with having a rotating merge >> captain who does the landing of approved branches ... and while they're >> handling merges that's all they do. I plan to replace that merge captain >> with a program as soon as I can. >> >> Although I appreciate the principal of being responsible for follow >> through, I'd argue that developers do not tend to be good at is >> following manual processes.
We've had a patch pilot rotation in Bazaar and it's been a big success, though we must not rest on it. The emphasis is not on doing automatable work but on giving people prompt help with adding tests etc. > It depends on what you mean. Doing tedious work that could be automated sucks. +1, but there are some parts that need to be done by a team member, specifically review and landing. > I'm obsessed with my branches landing. Each branch I have lying around > that's unmerged is a burning coal in my mind. I get a little zing of > geekly pleasure when my change hits stable and I can delete my local > copy of the branch. I'm kind of surprised that people are happy to > wait for someone else to land their branch. I have branches waiting to land and I'm certainly not happy about it. Perhaps you mean "surprised people put up with it", and perhaps we can work out what psychological/technical/process issues may cause that to be true. The old mps don't have any obvious reason in the comments why they are stalled. It seems to me: * some things get prompt review and others wait for a long time * a fair fraction of landings die with spurious errors (ie not related to the proposed change); this is offputting if you're a new contributor * i found it hard to get ec2 working; i'm sure it's a fairly shallow snag * if the proposer isn't a launchpad committer, and not able to land it themselves, the thing tends to stall -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
