[webkit-dev] Comment on the bug & email author/reviewer before reverting a patch

[Brady Eidson]

> On Jul 9, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Tim Horton <timothy_horton at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 9, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Could we teach webkitbot to do an appropriate notification with a waiting period? Either as part of rollout or add a new command to do it.
> 
> It already does. The “waiting period” is defined by when the person who asked for the rollout sets the cq+ bit on the rollout patch.
> 
> I don't think creating a rollout patch should be the standard method of notifying the author/reviewer.  We should be informing the author/reviewer ahead of the time.

We already have an automated tool that quickly and easily notifies the author/reviewer, and that tool also happens to create the rollout patch.

As Tim points out, the rollout patch is never landed unless a reviewer (usually the person who created the rollout patch) sets the cq+ bit on it.

I don’t see what negative effect the mere existence of the rollout patch has, or why we should codify into the process that a rollout patch is *not* created when notifying the author/reviewer.

Thanks,
~Brady

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> - R. Niwa
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