Ditto. And they certainly have done an outstanding job over the last year. Lawrence
----- Original Message ----- > Sounds like a great idea to me! > > Gavin > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Clint Talbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > When we moved to the "inbound" model of tree management, the Tree Sheriffs > > became a crucial part of our engineering infrastructure. The primary > > responsibility of the Sheriffs is and will always be to aid developers to > > easily, quickly, and seamlessly land their code in the proper location(s) > > and ensure that code does not break our automated tests. In the service of > > this objective, the Sheriffs work closely with the larger engineering > > organization to create and enforce landing policies that increase > > productivity while maintaining an efficient and robust automated testing > > system. Beyond the policy role, they have also become shepherds of > > automation quality by monitoring intermittent failures, performing uplifts > > and merges, and identifying poorly performing automation machines. This > > role > > has proven successful, and it feels like it is time to propose a formal > > module for the Tree Sheriffs in the larger context of the Activities > > Module. > > > > Ed Morley(edmorley)will be module owner for Tree Sheriffing. > > > > The peers will be Ryan VanderMeulen (RyanVM), Phil Ringnalda (Philor), > > Carsten Book (Tomcat), and Wes Kocher (KWierso). > > > > The living document of Sheriff roles and responsibilities will be kept up > > to > > date on this wiki page [1] and will certainly change over time as our > > organization and our automation continues to expand. But this module and > > this document will help give the sheriffs a platform to work from for > > future > > changes. > > > > Please congratulate them all on a job well done this last year, and let me > > know if you have any feedback concerning creating this new module. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Clint > > > > [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Sheriffing > > > > _______________________________________________ > > governance mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
