
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
Interesting. Chromium has something kind-of similar, named "commit queue", for developers without actual commit access. Once they get an LGTM, the thing rolls automatically. In fact, core developers often find it useful too because the Chromium tree is sometimes closed ("red"). We don't really do the latter in Python, which carries a problem we'll probably need to resolve first - how to know that the bots are green enough. That really needs human attention.
Another interesting (and relevant, I think) concept from the Mozilla community is the Try Server, where you can push a work-in-progress patch to see how it does on all the platforms. I.e. it runs all the same tests that build slaves run, but the repository it works against isn't accessible publicly, so you can try your work without breaking the main tree.
Cheers,
Dirkjan