+1 to Niharika - the initial iteration caused some inconvenience, but I expect 
subsequent iterations to be useful. Thank you Paladox!





> On 22 Jan 2019, at 13:09, Niharika Kohli <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
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