[Dev] Rotating build sheriff duties?

[John Anderson]

+1

Lisa Dusseault wrote:

>
> 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
>
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