[dpdk-dev] [RFC] devtools: improve DPDK review process

[Jerin Jacob]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 2:35 PM Anatoly Burakov
<anatoly.burakov at intel.com> wrote:
>
> A common problem on the DPDK mailing list is lack of reviewers for
> patches. This script is intended to help with that problem, by picking
> a random commit author from our git history, and adding a Reviewed-by:
> tag. This can be added to e.g. commit-msg git hook, like so:
>
>     # add reviewer to commit message
>     $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/devtools/get-reviewer.sh >> $1
>
> Now all DPDK code will definitely be well reviewed!
>
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> Rеviеwеd-by: Thоmas Mоnjаlоn <thomas at monjalon.net>

Looks like shuf aliased  to "git shortlog --numbered --summary | head -n 1"

> ---
>  devtools/get-reviewer.sh | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 devtools/get-reviewer.sh
>
> diff --git a/devtools/get-reviewer.sh b/devtools/get-reviewer.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..f4b07c9862
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/devtools/get-reviewer.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +# find a reviewer for the code
> +git log --format="Reviewed-by: %an <%ae>" | sort -u | shuf -n 1

Leaving the fun part aside,

Looks like we can really improve the situation by
doing git annotate(to get the original author) of couple lines below
and above current patch
that changes lines.

Thoughts?


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