As many of you are aware, the sheriff team has been assisting with landing checkin-needed bugs for some time now. However, we've also had to deal with the fallout of a higher than average bustage frequency from them. As much as we enjoy shooting ourselves in the foot, our team has decided that we needed to tweak our process a bit to avoid tree closures and wasted time and energy.
Therefore, our team has decided that we will now require that a link to a recent Try run be provided when requesting checkin before we will land the patch. To be clear, this *ONLY* affects checkin-needed bugs where we're assisting with the landing. We have no desire to police what other developers do before pushing. As has always been the case, developers are expected to ensure that their patches have received adequate testing prior to pushing whether they are receiving our assistance or not. Our team is also not going to dictate which specific builds/tests are required. We're not experts in your code and we'll defer to your judgment as to what counts as sufficient testing. As mentioned earlier today in another post, if in doubt, we do have a set of general best practices for Try that can be used as a guide [1]. We just want to ensure that patches have at least received some baseline level of testing before being pushed to production. We've been testing the water with this policy for the past couple weeks and have already seen a reduction in the number of backouts needed. For those of you mentoring bugs for new contributors, please also keep this in mind in order to keep patches from being held up in landing. And consider vouching for Level 1 commit access to further empower those contributors! Thanks! -Ryan [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing/How:To:Recommended_Try_Practices _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
