I think it would be a good idea to ensure that there is at least someone on
call to help new gardeners if they have questions or find themselves in a
mess. I know I just asked dglazkov whenever I wasn't sure what to do, but
he'd probably appreciate not being the only designated knowledgeable person.
:-)
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Glenn Wilson gwil...@chromium.org wrote:
I'll take the action item to remove anyone in the rotation who is not
actively working on Webkit / is not a committer.
In the past, I've floated the idea in the past of having a Webkit deputy
who helps the gardener keep the canary green. I'm not sure if that would
help, though.
Regards,
Glenn
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM, David Levin le...@chromium.org wrote:
I find that being a WebKit gardener is always dancing on a minefield
regardless of my familiarity with the WebKit code base. Look at yesterday
for an example.
In addition, we have several gardeners who are not actively working on
WebKit (amanda@ has 0 WebKit commits, pinkerton@ has a few all in 2008).
Lastly, can we add anyone to the rotation who has ideas how WebKit
gardeners should/can do their job better? (This will help them in getting
more ideas.)
Dave
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Dimitri Glazkov
dglaz...@chromium.orgwrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mike Pinkerton pinker...@chromium.org
wrote:
It is hard to be a WebKit gardener if you do not have WebKit commit
access.
Sometimes the gardener has to commit a quick bustage fix upstream or
roll
back a fellow Chromium committers change to WebKit.
-Darin
Correct, it is hard, but many/most of us who are webkit
sheriffs/gardeners are not webkit committers (for example, the entire
mac group). I don't understand your point. Are you saying that only
webkit committers should be on the webkit sheriff rotation?
In my experience, better familiarity with WebKit code base is a huge
advantage for a gardener. I am almost tempted to say that if you're
not actively working on WebKit, being a gardener will be a foreign and
dancing-on-a-minefield-type task.
:DG
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