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On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/06/2015 11:00 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>>> Of course. Add the commit author, too: I want to know if I break someone |
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>>> else's package. |
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>> So far, can't do that since we don't know which commit exactly broke. I |
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>> don't want to do any heuristics that could blame the wrong person. |
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> Is the testing performed per-push rather than per-commit? Either way, I |
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> would like to get a notification that something broke, even if it wasn't |
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> my commit at fault. Just change the word "blame" to "alert" so no one |
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> feels slandered. |
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This isn't about shaming people. It is about alerting that the tree |
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is broken. I think we can agree that when packages don't build it is |
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a problem, and it won't fix itself. |
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How many commits typically go by in-between checks? Would it be |
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practical to just alert any commit author in that time range? Sure, |
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it would generate a bit of spam, but: |
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1. Better to get problems fixed sooner than later. |
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2. The overall improved attention to QA will hopefully reduce the |
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error rate and thus make the number of emails regulate themselves. |
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One of the first steps towards reducing errors is to increase their visibility. |
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Rich |
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