[webkit-dev] Questions of a new committer

[Eric Seidel]

Completely agreed!  That's why Adam and I are trying an experiment of
removing the "wait for all bots to be green" check from the
commit-queue:
http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/61831

So far so good.  It's probably too extreme to remove the check
entirely, but we'll know better after a few days.

The queue was over 50 entries last night, but it's down to 25 now and
should be 0 by tomorrow.  With the green check gone, time from cq+ to
landing should only be how long it takes to build and test your patch.

-eric

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Tony Gentilcore <tonyg at chromium.org> wrote:
> Is there any policy or guideline regarding when it is appropriate to use the
> commit queue vs landing directly?
> I feel like there is an unfortunate "positive feedback" loop right now:
> 1. Commit queue gets slightly backed up either due to a breakage or just
> heavy volume.
> 2. Because the queue is backed up, it is more tempting to land directly.
> 3. Directly landed patches are more likely to break the tree and the new
> breakage backs up the queue even more.
> 4. Goto #2.
> Long queues punish developers not because of the wait for the patch to land,
> but because those patches are more likely to have merge conflicts. So the
> incentive seems to be to land without the queue. I'm just curious if this
> has been brought up before and if folks more experienced than myself have
> ideas about how we could improve this.
> Tony
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