[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> There are degrees of importance. For example, I think checkin comments
> are very important and should contain lots of information. Some others
> disagree about the importance, and think various parts I think are
> important can be omitted. Discussions haven't lead to consensus. So we
> are at the status quo where everyone does pretty much what they want,
> because nobody considers it so important as to take really drastic
> measures to force a resolution.

I disagree slightly with your characterization here.

We made a decision that we'd require bug #s in comments when the fix is 
for a bug, and people seem to be following that requirement pretty 
consistently.

There was also a decision (implicit, and we do need to be making 
decisions more explicitly) not to enforce more detailed requirements for 
checkin comments at this time. Several folks made the argument that good 
checkin comments are really useful, and are following that example 
themselves. As a result, more people are following suit as they see that 
it is useful themselves. (Count me as one who is at least trying to do 
that).

Sometimes cultural change takes a while, adding more process right away 
isn't always the best way to get that to happen.

Cheers,
Katie