[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Tim Steele
I agree.. reading this as someone slated for duty tomorrow got me thinking about one pseudo-related question / point. I know lots of time people cram stuff into the tree status to explain who is working on which red bit, and what tests are flaky today and we (sheriffs or someone watching the

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Tim Steelet...@chromium.org wrote: you have to keep asking, unless you're always on IRC and can cleverly search the window contents.  A constant place to go looking for this would make it easier, at least in my opinion.  Like right now I don't know what's up

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Kasting
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Tim Steele t...@chromium.org wrote: A constant place to go looking for this would make it easier, at least in my opinion. Like right now I don't know what's up with Chromium Mac (valgrind) or Webkit dbg (12) to name a few; they're red but the tree is open.

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Dan Kegel
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Peter Kastingpkast...@google.com wrote:  Like right now I don't know what's up with Chromium Mac (valgrind) or Webkit dbg (12) to name a few; they're red but the tree is open. If you ever see a case like this, go ahead and close the tree yourself until you get

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Tim Steele
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Tim Steele t...@chromium.org wrote: A constant place to go looking for this would make it easier, at least in my opinion. Like right now I don't know what's up with Chromium Mac

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Amanda Walker
Very much agreed. If anything is red, and it's not immediately clear that someone's on it, close the tree. The burden should be on whoever is explaining why the tree is open but red, not why it's closed, especially for the sheriff. --Amanda On Wednesday, August 5, 2009, Peter Kasting

[chromium-dev] Re: Trick question: Who is responsible for repairing a red tree?

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Van Lenten
One thing the mozilla waterfall has (or did have at one time) is the ability to add comments to any build column/step. I've seen it used so someone can hang a quick comment of reverting or ### pushed with fix. That way right next to a specific problem you can have any extra info, and unlike