Why Write a PostmortemTo understand how failures happen, in order to prevent future occurrences by education and process changes. When To Write a PostmortemA postmortem is expected for any tree closures lasting longer than 4 hours, within 72 hours of the outage. Who Should Write the PostmortemThe postmortem should be written by someone involved with detecting and correcting the issue, preferably someone who can take responsibility for the followup. What to IncludePlease use the postmortem template found here (file -> make a copy). Your postmortem should include the following sections:
Where to Put ItWhenever possible, postmortems should be accessible to the entire Chromium community. If you are a Google employee, and your postmortem contains internal details, see the internal infrastructure team's postmortem site instead.
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Postmortems
Title | Date |
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Grit Compile Errors Require Clobber | July 25, 2014 |
Postmortem: 15 hour tree closure by a file named "about" | May 9, 2014 |
SPDY/QUIC Connection Pooling Bug Postmortem | |
.dbconfig files loss on master3 | September 19, 2014 |
Swarming Postmortem: 2014-12-04 | December 4, 2014 |
chromium.perf tests on android userdebug builds failing for 7 days | January 30, 2015 |
No data from some android bots on chromium.perf for 2 weeks | December 22, 2014 |
Swarming Postmortem: Undeleteable directorie | November 22, 2015 |
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