Does this user have a bugzilla :alias so that folks submitting patches via MozReview or similar can just write r=build-peer or something, rather than having to manually select the appropriate shared queue after submitting their patch for review?
-Nathan On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Chris Cooper <c...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Many of the build peers have long review queues. I'm not convinced > that all of the review requests going to any particular build peer > need to be exclusive. We're going to try an experiment to see if we > can make this better for patch authors and reviewers alike. To this > end, we've set up a shared review queue for patches submitted to the > Core::Build Config module. > > How to participate: > > When you submit your next Build Config patch, simply select the new, > shared "user" core-build-config-revi...@mozilla.bugs as the reviewer > instead of a specific build peer. The build peers are watching this > new user, and will triage and review your patch accordingly. > > This new arrangement should hopefully shorten patch queues for > specific reviewers and improve turnaround times for everybody. It also > has the added benefit of automatically working around absences, > vacations, and departures of build peers. > > Note: this system still allows for targeting reviews to specific build > peers. Indeed, the build peers may do exactly that in triage if the > patch in question touches a particular sub-domain. However, I would > encourage patch authors to use the shared bucket unless you really > understand the sub-domain yourself or are collaborating directly with > a particular build peer. > > As indicated in the subject, this is an experiment. I will monitor > patch queues and turnaround time over the next few months, and then > decide in January whether we should continue or try something else. > > Thanks for your patience, and for trying something new. > > cheers, > -- > coop > _______________________________________________ > dev-builds mailing list > dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
