Use a bot to pick potential reviewers for PRs

[Ondřej Čertík]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out ways to delegate the reviewing process, so
that we can reduce the number of open pull requests. I suggested to
use labels "PR: author's turn" before [1], and I think that would
work, except that I don't have the time myself to be flipping these
labels manually. So there should be a bot that does that. It looks
like Microsoft has already written a bot that does a similar thing:

http://www.felixrieseberg.com/a-peer-review-bot-for-github/
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/peer-review-bot

Related to that, we also want to get more people reviewing pull
requests. We should use a bot that goes into the source file and using
"git blame" figures out some potential reviewers. Here is one from
Facebook that does that:

https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot


Any volunteers to set this up? I would try the mention-bot, I think
this could be very useful.

Ondrej


[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sympy/14dxPREl56k/discussion

[Aaron Meurer]

Does mention-bot provide a way for people to opt-out from being
mentioned by it?

Aaron Meurer

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[Ondřej Čertík]

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Aaron Meurer <asme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does mention-bot provide a way for people to opt-out from being
> mentioned by it?

Yes, see the userBlacklist in
https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot#configuration

I wonder however, whether we should rather opt-in people by hand, so
that only people that want to do this will be mentioned, everybody
else will not.

Ondrej

[Ted Horst]

You might want to have a look at https://github.com/servo/highfive. The rust and servo projects use it for assigning reviewers among other things.

Ted

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