[webkit-dev] Frustrated at inconsiderate behavior

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

07.07.2010, в 00:47, Adam Barth написал(а):

> If you're tired of my complaining about the tree being red, you can
> skip this message.


I understand that you're frustrated, but I think that you're misinterpreting what happened.

> 1) He could have run-webkit-tests before committing his change.

I did that. I made the mistake of running a wrong subset though (forgot that local xmlhttprequest tests were no longer in fast/dom).

> 2) If he didn't have time to run the tests locally, he could have used
> the commit-queue to run-webkit-tests before it landed his patch.

Using commit-queue while it still doesn't provide correct svn blame is trading short term problems for longer term ones. Yes, one can still open a changeset by number, but having names really helps read svn blame.

> 3) He could have looked at the tree when sheriff-bot informed him that
> he might have broken Leopard Intel Debug by pinging him in #webkit and
> commenting on his bug:
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41156#c8>.

I worked with Qt guys on fixing tests on Qt, and I watched the tree, which didn't show any sign of a problem from my patch at the time. Perhaps I'm starting to rely on sheriff bot too much - it didn't complain about any platforms besides Leopard Intel Debug.

Leopard builder was seriously broken yesterday, so I didn't pay attention when it complained about a problem many hours later. In retrospect, that was a mistake.

> these failures remained in the tree until I cleaned them up


I see that Tiger bot still has a unique failure, and will investigate it as soon as possible.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov