Pick a random reviewer

Written by marcelpetrick on January 30, 2019

Most teams have a certain code-review-process. But most of the time there is no “round robin”-implementation who will be the reviewer, but the coder itself should select the reviewer. Because of domain-knowledge, etc. And then you her lots of times “I am currently busy. Not me!”

Solution: random and fair selection via bash.

#!/bin/bash
# initialize the array
array=(MSA MBH HGA GSC MPE NLE RNI MLA)

size=${#array[@]}
index=$(($RANDOM % $size))
echo "Mister ${array[$index]} is your candidate as reviewer. Congratulations!"
echo "In case you picked yourself - just rerun ;))"

#!/bin/bash

# initialize the array

array=(MSA MBH HGA GSC MPE NLE RNI MLA)

size=${#array[@]}

index=$(($RANDOM % $size))

echo "Mister ${array[$index]} is your candidate as reviewer. Congratulations!"

echo "In case you picked yourself - just rerun ;))"

Current version of the script can be found at: https://github.com/marcelpetrick/bashCollection/blob/master/randomReviewer.sh

Inspired by a stack-overflow answer.

solutions; not code

Pick a random reviewer