Running a buildfarm member requires very little attention once you have it set up. That's as it should be, and was always a design goal. From time to time we get persistent failures, and I will send an email note to the owners asking them to do a little cleanup. Usually this results in very prompt action. However, I've just had to take the very rare action of disabling three members whose owner has apparently ignored my request to fix things. I don't know if he's left the job where these were running, or he's on a very long vacation, or what. But I don't see why we should have endlessly failing machines on the buildfarm dashboard if their owners go silent. If he fixes them we can re-enable them, but it's going to take positive action on his part.
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