[webkit-dev] review queue crazy idea

[Alex Milowski]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Alex Milowski <alex at milowski.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>> Given a patch file, you have its line number ranges.
>>
>> Given a git checkout, you can very quickly find who has made changes
>> to what lines in that file.
>>
>> You then can have a bot post to the bug, saying that 10 people have
>> touched the lines you're touching in your patch.  3 of them are active
>> reviewers, here are their names:
>
> That sounds like a "heat map" for code.  I wonder if there are existing
> tools that do that?

This looks interesting:

   http://www.statsvn.org/

I'm not sure if it can answer "this line of code has these reviewers" but
it is worth a look.

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--Alex Milowski
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considered."

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