[webkit-dev] Volunteers to run commit-queue?

[Eric Seidel]

I'll take care of it.  I have bugzilla-tool bugs to fix anyway.
-eric

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

> Hi webkit-dev,
>
> I'm going to be in Canada next week for USENIX Security, so I won't be
> able to run the commit-queue script.  If you'd like to try your hand
> at running the script, I've attached it to this email.  I need to
> re-write it in python so we can check it into the WebKitTools/Scripts
> directory.
>
> The commit-queue isn't polished yet, so you should be prepared to do a
> little hand holding with the script.  The three main issues to be
> aware of are as follows:
>
> 1) The script takes over the working copy to apply patches, build, and
> test.  I've been running it from a dedicated working copy so I can be
> productive while it runs.
>
> 2) The script is tries to be conservative in actually committing to
> the repository.  That means if someone else commits to the same
> top-level directory during the build / test cycle, the script won't
> actually pull the commit trigger.  It will just try to land the patch
> again in the next cycle.  We might want to experiment with being
> slightly more aggressive here.
>
> 3) If a patch is bad (doesn't apply cleanly, doesn't build, doesn't
> pass all the tests), the script won't r- the patch automatically.  It
> will just diligently try to land the patch each cycle.  You should pay
> some attention when a patch fails and update the bug appropriately.
> One clear next step is to update the tool to set the commit-queue-
> flag when a patch fails.
>
> Other than that, you just need to watch the builtbots to make sure you
> didn't destroy the tree.  :)
>
> Adam
>
> P.S., Protip: If you want to see which bugs are in the queue, you can
> run ./WebKitTools/Scripts/bugzilla-tool bugs-to-commit or use this
> (slightly less precise) Bugzilla query:
>
>
> https://bugs.webkit.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=notregexp&short_desc=
> \[S60\]&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=
> flagtypes.name
> &type0-0-0=equals&value0-0-0=commit-queue%2B&field0-1-0=noop&type0-1-0=equals&value0-1-0=
>
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