[python-committers] PQM?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Aug 14, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> As long as we're touting tools or processes that we have experience
>> with, Google uses a combination of tools. One tool is similar to the
>> buildbots, running tests *after* stuff has been checked in. A feature
>> that buildbot is missing is that it tries to figure which checkin is
>> responsible for a particular failure, and mails both the author of
>> that change and the owner of the code (if different).
>
> Buildbot does have a blame list. Mailing the developer failed so far
> because we didn't have email addresses of each developer. Now, with
> the python-committers list, Brett collected them, so such mailing
> would be possible.
>
> I'm not sure about mailing the owner of the code: we don't typically
> have owners of code, right? Would you consider it useful to support
> the case were we do have an owner? Such an ownership database would
> need to be maintained, as well, and typically, when we do have owners,
> the owner is also the committer.

I'm not in favor of code owners, but commit owners might be  
worthwhile.  If we have the email addresses now, and can easily enable  
it, then I think we should have the buildbots email both this mailing  
list and the owner of the commit when things break.

- -Barry

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