Re: Bug Squad Rota

[Colin Hall]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Ralph Palmer wrote:
>
> As a result, I frequently don't have any bugs to evaluate when I get
> up on Saturday morning, and I frequently don't get back to the Bug
> List until Sunday morning. By that time, someone in Europe has
> usually snagged my Saturday bugs. In the interest of equity of
> labor, I'm requesting that someone who has one of the weekdays
> (where I'm more often at the computer later in the day) switch with
> me.

If you would like to change shifts, that's fine, Ralph. Generally I
think the amount of work people do goes up and down depending upon
their availability. Certainly true for me, and I think we just pick up
the slack for each other, and that's fine.

Much of my bug squad work is done between 22:00 and 01:00 GMT so I
often don't start handling reports until many hours after my shift has
started, local time.

An idea I have used in the past is a virtual or physical token that is
passed around the team to signal the handover of responsibility. When
you've done your bit you send a subject-only email to the squad (not
bug-lilypond) saying "Bug squad token free". When the next squad
member comes on shift, or if someone wants to do some extra, they send
an email saying "Bug squad token taken". This does not replace the
rota; we would still have allotted days.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall