eamsen / superblame

Code reviewer recommendation tool.

Superblame

About

Superblame is a simple recommendation system used to find a suitable reviewer for your patch.

Version Control Support

• Git
• Mercurial

Requirements

• Python 2.7

Installation

superblame.py is a stand-alone Python script and does not require installation. The install procedure just creates the symbolic link superblame in a common directory in your path (currently set to /usr/bin). If that's what you want, just use

make install

Usage

First, navigate to the repository root, or use --src to set it accordingly.

Case 1: You want to find a reviewer for your current changeset

Simply use

superblame

Case 2: You want to find a reviewer for an existing patch

Just provide the path to the patch

superblame <patch>

Output

The output is a ranked list of editors. The relevance of an editor to your changeset is given my the number of #. Let's look at the following output

  Peter #######################
Grigory ##############
    Eve ###########
   Hans ####
  Joshi ##
Randall #

It tells us, that Peter is the most suitable reviewer for the changeset, with Grigory and Eve being good alternatives.

Use --help for more details.

License

The MIT License.