On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 6:12 PM Paladox via Wikitech-l < [email protected]> wrote:
> What your saying is making me think I’m wasting my time on improving this > extension. > Also other users that have spoken to me have thought this extension is > great but could do with improvements which I am doing. We need to think of > new users and how to improve there experence. The task was opened for a > long while yet no one commented on it. > I agree with legoktm feedback. > “A process that annoys people based on nothing but the fact that > theyhappened to be the last one touching a file *is* fundamentally broken.” > yes hence why I’ve been making improvements by adding a button which is > better then nothing right? > As chad mentions it has no idea what is a typo fix compared to other > things as it’s not A.I. > Thanks for working on this, Paladox. I think this can be a really useful feature for newcomers and experienced developers alike, if implemented well. I look forward to seeing it in action. > On Tuesday, 22 January 2019, 12:05:24 GMT, Thiemo Kreuz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Fundamentally broken sounds like a bit of a stretch. > > A process that annoys people based on nothing but the fact that they > happened to be the last one touching a file *is* fundamentally broken. > This is not how anyone should look for reviewers, neither manually nor > automatically. > > Here is a thought experiment: We could send review requests to the > *least* active users that are still around, but *never* touched a > file. The positive effects of such an approach include: > * More people get familiar with the code. > * Knowledge gets spread more evenly. > * Bottlenecks and bus factors get reduced. > * These people probably have more time. > * Review requests are spread more evenly. > * Workload is spread more evenly. > > Still sounds like a bad idea? Sure, because it is. Now tell me: How is > it more clever to do the *opposite* and dump review requests on people > that have to much workload already? > > At this point I don't care any more if we are talking about a fully > automated process or a suggest button. Both are targeting the wrong > people. > > > it was probably working quite well for our less-trafficked repositories. > > What is the difference between being the last one fixing a typo in a > low-traffic vs. high-traffic repository? In both cases it's the wrong > person. > > Thiemo > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Niharika Product Manager Community Tech Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
