[Evolution] Looking for Evolution triagers to evaluate a triage tool

["John Anvik" <janvik cs ubc ca>]

(This seemed the most appropriate place to reach the Evolution triager
community. If I have the wrong list please tell me.)

I am a PhD student at the University of British Columbia working on a
way to assist triagers. Specifically, I am looking at an approach to
recommend to whom a bug report should be assigned (i.e. which
developer(s) has/have the correct expertise for a particular bug
report). The philosophy is that the sooner the report gets into the
hands of the right developer (or one in the right set of developers)
the sooner progress can be made on the bug.

I have a working web-based tool called Sibyl for providing both
developer and component recommendations for bug reports. What I am
looking for is triagers to try it and give me feedback. Sibyl is found
at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~janvik/sibyl. The page also has a short video
tutorial so you can get a feel for how Sibyl works and looks like.
Details about the evaluation are at
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~janvik/sibyl-ad.htm, including that people who
try it out get a $20 gift certificate from Amazon.

Sibyl is currently making recommendations for the Firefox and Eclipse
projects. I want to know if the Evolution triagers are also interested
in trying out the tool and giving feedback. If so, I will set Sibyl up
to make component and assignment recommendations for Evolution. If you
are interested, please drop me a line at janvik cs ubc ca so that I
can gauge the general interest.

While Sibyl could also be used to make recommendations for assigning
bug reports to products (I know that cross-product confusion is a
problem), it would require using data from the entire repository and
this is not really feasible for the moment without installing some
software on the Gnome servers. However, if there is a small set (3-5)
products that are commonly confused, I am willing to look at having
Sibyl make recommendations to distinguish between those products. Just
let me know if there is interest in it and what products would be in
the set.

Any questions, comments, or suggestions please contact me at janvik cs ubc ca 

Thanks for a few moments of your time.

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John Anvik
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia
janvik cs ubc ca
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~janvik/