Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-06 Thread Scott Quesnelle
I have taken a somewhat low tech solution. I generate the summary from ReviewBoard and it then writes it to a local directory on the host. The files are named based upon the defect ID. These files are then processed by an external script which then does the actual task of updating our defect

Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-04 Thread Scott Quesnelle
I personally do two things. One carrot, one stick. Stick first. I just sort reviews based on last updated time and look for anyone that has more then 2 or 3 reviews of more then a certain age. I then have a somewhat standard form letter that I mail them. It reminds them of the process needs of

Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-04 Thread Tucker
Any chance you could share your diff for updating your tracker? We're using JIRA and I've had to become plenty familiar with the SOAP API. As I'm lazy and you've already done a bit of the work, I was hoping I could piggy back of your efforts. I've not had the time to dive in and find out how to

Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-04 Thread Chris Tooley
That would be fantastic. We use HP Quality Center (jury is still out on the quality post of the name) and I'm takes with automating that as well. On Nov 4, 2011 7:45 PM, Tucker j...@gmail.com wrote: Any chance you could share your diff for updating your tracker? We're using JIRA and I've had

Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-02 Thread Tucker
I actually have a similar problem. Since there's no connection between a commit and an open review (by design and it makes sense), people tend to leave their reviews open. I have yet to take the time to do this but my long term plan is two fold: 1. Nag System Stale reviews (over 48 hours...

Re: How to get people to close off reviews

2011-11-02 Thread J Arrizza
Do #1 with a small change: send the email to everyone on the team. The nag factor along with the peer pressure factor works very well. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Tucker j...@gmail.com wrote: I actually have a similar problem. Since there's no connection between a commit and an open

How to get people to close off reviews

2011-10-27 Thread Jeremy Poulter
Hi, As one of the key reviewers my list of open reviews is quite large and the majority of them are inactive as they have either been committed or abandoned. I am after suggestions on how to manage this (I have tried the big stick approach already ;-) Is there a way to query old reviews? Is there