Try-from-bugzilla would be awesome! / Jonas
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Reducing the thread scope for the followup) > > One issue I often run into is that the contributor doesn't have access to > try, and pushing it on their behalf disrupts the rhythm of the other things > I'm doing. If we go forward with this, can we also get some kind of > sheriff-assisted try push flag? Something like try-needed? > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen < > rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
