[webkit-dev] Asking for review by pinging bugs---another approach

[Hajime Morrita]

Does it make sense for webkit-patch post/upload to support "--ping" to
acknowledge a set of reviewers using a specific form of comment? As a
reviewer, some kind of specific pattern would be helpful to filter
such ping mails which contain, for example, "ping:morrita@".

Maybe this can be taken as a step backward to the "by name" review
request which we had declined. But at least for me, such kind of
filterable mail would be gret tool to pick bugs for review.  Even
though this won't help some high-traffic reviewers, it won't hurt at
least. I've been overwhelmed by the stream of Bugzilla mail coming...

What do you think?

--
morrita


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Andreas Kling <kling at webkit.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>> Not to pick on anyone in particular, but when reading bugmail I
>> occasionally see messages like "pinging for review."  I review a lot
>> of patches, but I don't find these messages particularly helpful
>> because I don't know whether I'm supposed to review the patch.
>>
>> Another approach that might work better for you is to address your
>> comment at someone in particular.  For example, if the message says
>> "Adam, can you please review this patch?", then there's a pretty good
>> chance I'll click through and try to answer your question.
>>
>> If you're unsure who to ask for review, one approach is to look at the
>> svn log for the files you're changing and see who has written/reviewed
>> patches for those files recently.  You can also ask folks who've been
>> around the project for a while to suggest someone.
>
>
> True that.
>
> You can also find reviewers for a particular area here on the WebKit Team
> wiki page: http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit%20Team (and I encourage people
> to keep their entry up-to-date.)
>
> -Kling
>
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