[webkit-dev] review queue crazy idea

[Dirk Pranke]

I have been thinking along these lines as well. I'm not sure how
relevant touching existing lines of code is versus just other people
who have hacked on the file at all or who have hacked on other files
in the same directory (i.e., you'd need to address new code and new
files, too). I think some empirical testing and tweaking would be the
way to evaluate this, though.

-- Dirk

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:11 AM, 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:
>
> You could even educate such a script/bot about "whitespace" or
> "rename" changes so they're excluded from any "who touched this"
> lookup.
>
> I would like to build (or see built) this (or a similar) script.  I
> just haven't had the time to do it.
>
> It's better than manual owner files or watch lists IMO because it's
> automatically generated.
>
> -eric
>
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Alex Milowski <alex at milowski.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>>> I've never really liked trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit%20Team.  Its
>>> always seemed more of place to brag about webkit involvement, than a
>>> useful reference.  I think we could build a much better "who should I
>>> ask to review this" tool based on SVN information.
>>
>> Were you thinking of some kind of automated "harvesting" of this information?
>>
>> I seems like a simple data file that can be processed by systems
>> would be a good way to start.  Then people can submit patches (or
>> commit changes) to file changing the areas that they are willing
>> to review and others can see/review that commitment.
>>
>> People who are looking for a reviewer can look through that file for
>> individuals.
>>
>> If a review doesn't want to get reminder e-mails or requests from
>> systems or individuals, they would then have to remove that
>> review "area" for themselves from that data file.
>>
>> I would personally use an XML format ... but that's me.  ;)
>>
>>
>> --
>> --Alex Milowski
>> "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
>> inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
>> considered."
>>
>> Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics
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