Automatically prioritizing pull requests

Erik Van Der Veen; Georgios Gousios; Andy Zaidman

doi:10.1109/MSR.2015.40

Automatically prioritizing pull requests

Erik Van Der Veen, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman

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Abstract

In previous work, we observed that in the pull-based development model integrators face challenges with regard to prioritizing work in the face of multiple concurrent pull requests. We present the design and initial implementation of a prototype pull request prioritisation tool called PRioritizer. PRioritizer works like a priority inbox for pull requests, recommending the top pull requests the project owner should focus on. A preliminary user study showed that Prioritize provides functionality that GitHub is currently lacking, even though users need more insight into how the priority ranking is established to make Prioritize really useful.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2015
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	357-361
Number of pages	5
Volume	2015-August
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769555942
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2015.40
Publication status	Published - 4 Aug 2015
Event	12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2015 - Florence, Italy Duration: 16 May 2015 → 17 May 2015

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Conference	12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2015
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	16/05/15 → 17/05/15

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GitHub
Pull based development
Pull request

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