[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

Andi Vajda vajda at osafoundation.org
Wed Dec 7 13:24:43 PST 2005


On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>> Did I miss anything?
>
> Naming names.  :)  I don't think we're going to make any progress on our 
> organizational issues as long as knowledge of who the "offenders" are remains 
> private.  We can only ponder the mysterious "they" who are breaking the rules 
> and wonder what all the fuss is about.  (While a rotating sheriff duty would 
> certainly expose more people to the issues, it would not give them a viable 
> perspective on who the offenders are because of the small and infrequent 
> time-slicing.)

+1

> So, if we are developing systems to enforce the rules, they should inform us 
> in an automated way as to who is not following them, if the system cannot 
> itself directly enforce the rule.

If I see my name, I'm less likely to ignore the messages. If the messages are 
false positives, I will quickly learn to ignore those too.

Andi..


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