On 2018-01-09 11:01 +0000, Punit Agrawal wrote: > Thanks for pushing this through. For some reason, I was under the > impression that the give-backs are all automated. :) This made me wonder whether in fact it would make sense to automate this. Why do we not let DDs generate give-backs? I suspect this is mostly historical from when buildds were a more scarce resource, and we didn't trust DDs not to waste it? But it might be because the tool to do that also provides other capabilities that could be abused? It seems to me that there are not that many requests and they are mostly sensible, so if DDs could do this themselves that would probably work OK, even allowing for some increased slackness (from people knowing they are not going to be checked up on). The overhead of us checking and doing it is not large but it is perhaps not an optimal use of our time? Of course setting up some automation would also involve some work and maybe thats the main impediment. Do we agree in principle that letting DD/DMs do give-backs would be sensible or not? Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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