Sure, we could try adding a 'Reviewer' assignment field to our issues. That would be a neat improvement.
On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:42 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I was chatting with Umesh yesterday about reviews here in HBase and we > ended up talking about a couple of related problems: > > 1) As a person who does reviews, there's no obvious way in our current > project tooling to track those things I am reviewing or want to > review. > > I've tried using "Watching", but that's also issues where I just want > to know when things progress. I've tried just looking for things where > I've commented, but that also is messy. > > Currently, I rely on links to issues that I store in a G Keep list. > > 2) As a person who cares about project health, answering "who's doing > reviews" is really hard. We've had mixed success with the commit > message annotation. It also only really answers the question for stuff > that makes it into those git branches that I think to check. > > --- > > One possible solution to all of this is to expressly track reviewers > in the issue tracker, as we do who's handling implementation. In > GitHub issues there's exactly a field for this purpose. In ASF Jira > I've seen projects use "assignee" for this, or just the reviewer who > actually commits the change. I don't want to do that, since I like > tracking the person responsible for the fix. > > Talking to the ASF Infra folks, it looks like they could add a field > for us on the Jira instance. Would folks be up for trying it out? I > think we'd want to allow listing multiple reviewers. > > This way I could answer both #1 and #2 above, presuming some ground > work on adding reviewers in. It'd be an equivalent jira gardening task > as making sure we have the assignee set to whoever most handled making > the fix. (That is, most of the time folks would self-assign and > sometimes after-the-fact we'd correct the field when someone reviewed > in comments without adding themselves to the list.) > -- Best regards, Andrew Words like orphans lost among the crosstalk, meaning torn from truth's decrepit hands - A23, Crosstalk
