[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

[Lisa Dusseault]

On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

>
> The rotation seems like a nice theory to solve the same issue, but in 
> practice it seems unlikely that any given sheriff-of-the-day is going 
> to be particularly enthusiastic about confronting such issues.  After 
> all, why argue today when you can let it slide till tomorrow?  This 
> will just further exacerbate the problem of a lack of social pressure 
> and continue to enable the idea that this is just bureaucracy or 
> whatever excuses are being used.
>
I've seen teams where the "build monkey" was the guy who last broke the 
build.  That guy would have to keep the job until somebody else broke 
the build.  This provided real incentive to check things out.  Team 
members groused about having the job but not too much at all, and often 
the build monkey *would* implement some system fixes while he was in 
the job.  Overall I got the impression that team was very happy with 
the system as it raised quality overall.

Lisa