[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:51 PM 12/7/2005 -0800, Andi Vajda wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Mike Taylor wrote:
>>Ok, let me try and summarize so we can focus on what is needed to solve 
>>the different issues raised:
>>
>>  - we need to add email notifications to the tinderbox build/test failed 
>> event
>>  - we need to add SVN commit information to the tinderbox status page 
>> and notifications
>>  - we need to make it easy to either extract or locate the actual point 
>> of failure or error inside the build logs
>>
>>Did I miss anything?
>
>   - we need to eliminate false positives so that tinderboxes don't discredit
>     themselves.

Could you be more specific?  I'm not sure what you mean here.


>   - we need to automate locking down the svn tree and give people who need it
>     a convenient way to override the lock down so that they can resolve the
>     problem.

+1.  I think this should eventually extend to also rejecting commits to 
trees with current build failures, unless you include a valid "failure 
number" in the commit message.  This would stop accidental commits to 
burning trees.