[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

Katie Capps Parlante capps at osafoundation.org
Wed Dec 7 16:38:54 PST 2005


Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> I am not so sure we can eliminate the sheriff completely, but if I can
> be proven wrong I would be happy. It also seems like nobody is
> disagreeing that we need sheriff currently because the tools are what
> they are.
> 
> But since one wanted out: are there others who don't want to help out
> with sheriff duties while we improve the tools?

Perhaps we can step back and do some problem solving here...

Heikki and Bear have a need to not be spending all of their time making 
sure the build is green and hunting down problems.

Several engineers have expressed a couple of needs:
+ not to have tasks they only do a couple of times a month, because its 
a pain to have to figure it all out each time
+ not to have tasks where they are "enforcing" behavior of other engineers

We've had a few proposals for how we might be able to help with both needs:
+ automate some processes so that people don't make common mistakes

Any other suggestions for how we might meet everyone's needs?

Cheers,
Katie





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