I wrote up a wiki page that I hope answers your questions: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Core%20Builders
Adam On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Brent Fulgham <bfulg...@webkit.org> wrote: > A week or two ago, Adam Barth elected to remove my WinCairo build bot > from the list of core builders. In the check-in comment, he noted that > the WinCairo bot rarely built, and was never green. > > I do not agree with either of these statements -- the WinCairo build > bot had been green for a number of weeks after I activated tests > (instead of just building), and the bot generally builds properly (and > has done so for the past couple of years). > > I admit to being lax in keeping the bot green over the past few weeks, > which was an unusual case due to external factors. I generally attempt > to maintain the bot every day, but was not able to keep close tabs on > it for most of October. > > The build failures (which I fixed this afternoon) took all of five > minutes to correct, and were due to additions to symbol export files > that were not applied to the WinCairo version of these files. Surely > these small errors could have been corrected by the committer -- which > is surely the point of the build bots? > > While I understand that a Red bot is annoying, I feel that removing > the bot simply masked the problem. > > At the very least, I would hope that in the future that the build bot > owners should be notified if a third party makes the arbitrary > decision to remove a bot from the core set. The information is clearly > provided in the build bot configuration page. > > Thanks, > > -Brent > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
