We’re currently putting the finishing touches on Autoland to Inbound from MozReview. We have a relatively humble goal for the initial version of this: we’d like to replace the current manual “checkin-needed” process done by a sheriff. Basically, if a patch is reviewed and a try run has been done, the patch author can flag “checkin-needed” in Bugzilla and at some point in the future, a sheriff will land the changes.

In the near future, if a “ship-it” has been granted and a try run has been made, a button to land to Inbound will appear in the Automation menu in MozReview. At the moment, the main benefit of using Autoland is that it will retry landings in the event that the tree is closed. Enforcing a try run should cut down on tree closures, analysis of closure data in the past has shown a not insignificant number of patches which end up breaking the tree have had no try run performed.

A number of workflow improvements should be easy to implement once this is in place, for instance automatically closing MozReview requests to keep people’s incoming review requests sane and rewriting any r? in the commit summary to be r=.

http://www.lowleveldrone.com/mozilla/mozreview/autoland/2015/10/01/autoland.html