Automatically Prioritizing Pull Requests

Erik van der Veen, Georgios Gousios, Andy Zaidman
2015 2015 IEEE/ACM 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories  
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 PRioritizer provides functionality
more » ... that GitHub is currently lacking, even though users need more insight into how the priority ranking is established to make PRioritizer really useful.
doi:10.1109/msr.2015.40 dblp:conf/msr/VeenGZ15 fatcat:rkrgbozrbvefjfmm2tgv3pl4um