This sounds good to me. What mailing lists should the intent email be
sent to? It might help to have a template somewhere as well.

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:58 AM, Carsten Book <cb...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we had the case that a new testsuite was enabled and one test of that suite
> resulted in a new perma orange failure. Its a tier-2 testsuite but of
> course also tier 2 cause additional work for sheriffs.
>
> The Problem on new Testsuite is that Sheriffs are in a lot of cases not
> informed about that new testsuite (so we need to find out who to contact
> etc) and also it affects Developers because they might be confused why
> their try run is showing a orange result they don't even know of (and waste
> time in finding out if that test is red/orange because of their change).
>
> So i propose:
>
> People should email with an intent to implement when adding a new
> platform/suite, and that email should contain links to docs/wiki/... and
> the persons (in a super optimal case more than one just for timezone
> coverage if sheriffs have question) we can contact in case of questions.
>
> this would benefit in :
>
> 1) sheriffs will know who to speak to if it's failing or needs to be hidden
> - so we can assign bugs or even ping people directly on irc
> 2) developers know what this new test is when they break it on their try
> push and so save time and resources if the failure is known and sheriffs or
> others can point to a bug/newsgroup mail
> 3) discussions can be had about any overlap the new tests have with other
> suites or say deciding what platforms it should run on etc
>
> I guess this would help Sheriffs and Developers. I initially was thinking
> about about a changelog on treeherder for such changes but that have the
> disadvantage that this would not include all the information we need to
> contact someone etc
>
> I hope that this proposal make sense.
>
> Cheers,
> - Tomcat
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