Hearing no objections (and in a shout out to @ Nicholas Chammas who initially suggested mention-bot back in 2016) I've set up a copy of mention bot and run it against my own repo (looks like https://github.com/holdenk/spark-testing-base/pull/253 ).
If no one objects I’ll ask infra to turn this on for Spark on a trial biases and we can revisit it based on how folks interact with it. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca> wrote: > So there are a few bots along this line in OSS. If no one objects I’ll > take a look and find one which matches our use case and try it out. > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:33 AM Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Certainly I will frequently dig through 'git blame' to figure out who >> might be the right reviewer. Maybe that's automatable -- ping the person >> who last touched the most lines touched by the PR? There might be some >> false positives there. And I suppose the downside is being pinged forever >> for some change that just isn't well considered or one of those accidental >> 100K-line PRs. So maybe some way to decline or silence is important, or >> maybe just ping once and leave it. Sure, a bot that just adds a "Would @foo >> like to review?" comment on Github? Sure seems worth trying if someone is >> willing to do the work to cook up the bot. >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:22 PM Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi friends, >>> >>> Was chatting with some folks at the summit and I was wondering how >>> people would feel about adding a review bot to ping folks. We already have >>> the review dashboard but I was thinking we could ping folks who were the >>> original authors of the code being changed whom might not be in the habit >>> of looking at the review dashboard. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Holden :) >>> -- >>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau >>> >> -- > Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau > -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau
