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`r? @rust-highfive` to reassign a review randomly (again)

Open SimonSapin opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

When a PR is first opened, highfive randomly assigns its review to someone. Based on https://github.com/rust-lang/highfive/blob/master/highfive/configs/rust-lang/rust.json#L10 it looks like this is based on what files/directories the PR modifies. This is all good.

Sometimes, for a variety of possible reasons, the review an already-open PR needs to be reassigned to someone else. Typically what happens is that the person doing this navigates the appropriate team’s page under https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/ and picks someone at semi-random. It would be nice to have a way to ask highfive to auto-assign again, like it did when the PR was first opened:

  • This is fewer steps for the person who decided that reassigning was needed
  • In some cases we have deliberate differences between team membership and auto-assigned reviewers

Ideally highfive would in that case pick someone different from the first time on that particular PR. However running the same algorithm again would be good already: there are usually enough reviewers to choose from that picking the same twice in a row is unlikely, and if it happens we can simply give the command again.

The exact command to trigger this is less important. I initially though of r? @rust-highfive (we "assign" to highfive the responsibility to reassign someone else), https://github.com/rust-lang/highfive/issues/189 proposed r? _retry or r? _

SimonSapin avatar Dec 27 '19 13:12 SimonSapin

This has come up many more times since it was reported. It'd be really helpful to have this kind of "random reassign" mechanism, for several different teams.

joshtriplett avatar Mar 01 '21 19:03 joshtriplett