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

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

(re-sent from correct address)

11 июля 2014 г., в 3:59, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> написал(а):

> So it seems like the extra request for people using “webkitbot rollout” is to add diagnostic information to the rollout bug, and wait a reasonable period before cq+ing it. Is that something everyone could live with?


In the past, I've seen people overlook comments in rollout bugs more frequently than in original bugs, so I usually added the diagnostic information to the original bug. I think that it's more relevant there, as that's where people will be continuing the work. Knowing what the failure symptoms were is certainly relevant when reviewing a new iteration of the patch.

I have a potential issue with "reasonable period". In the thread, someone mentioned "~3 hours" as the time to wait. But having brokenness for a good part of a business day is unhelpful even if it's only one thing that's broken at a given time. Regressions are introduced more frequently than one per three hours on average, so a grace period this long will result in never having green tests (here I assume that no one advocates for any sort of grace period for build failures).

My strong preference is immediate reaction. It doesn't always have to be a rollout, sometimes an issue can be fixed, or some tests can even be temporarily skipped - just make the tree green and stable for everyone else, as quickly as possible. But if the author is not available, and the bot watcher doesn't have a better fix (or is simply overwhelmed with multiple regressions being under investigation at once), I think that immediate rollout should be considered normal.

- Alexey
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