[Engineering] Gerrit now automatically adds reviewers

Fri Jan 18 14:11:54 UTC 2019

Hi all,

Gerrit no longer automatically adds reviewers[0]. Unfortunately, this 
plugin appears (given the replies on this thread) to be missing key 
features needed to be useful for us at this time. Apologies to those 
folks whose inboxes were destroyed.

I would like to re-enable this plugin at some point, provided the 
features identified in this thread are added (perhaps also an 
"X-Gerrit-reviewers-by-blame: 1" email header, or subject line to make 
filtering these messages easier).

In the interim, project-owners are able to opt-in to using the 
reviewers-by-blame plugin on a per-project basis on their project admin 
page in Gerrit.

Also, the Git Reviewer Bot[1] provides folks an opt-in method of 
volunteering to review a subset of files in a particular repo.

Getting code review as a new contributor is hard. Thanks for bearing 
with us.

-- Tyler

[0]. <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/All-Projects/+/485184/>
[1]. <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git/Reviewers>

On 19-01-17 13:51:58, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Yesterday we (the Release Engineering team) enabled a Gerrit plugin that
>will automatically add reviewers to your changes based on who previously
>has committed changes to the file.
>
>For more, please read the blog post at:
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/139/gerrit_now_automatically_adds_reviewers/
>
>NOTE: There are a couple requests from us open upstream to improve the
>plugin[0], we'll incorporate those improvements when they are released.
>
>On behalf of the rest of the Release Engineering Team[1],
>
>Greg
>
>[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101131#4890023
>[1] As well as Paladox, a Wikimedia volunteer with strong ties to
>upstream Gerrit.
>
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