[gdal-dev] Integrating AI assisted code review for PR in OSGeo/GDAL?

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I went ahead and enabled Gemini code assist in the repo. It should 
(hopefully) triggers only if you type "/gemini review" in a PR comment. 
It is enabled for issues at Medium or High priority. Let's see how it goes

Even

Le 02/04/2026 à 15:42, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I think it could be worth to have the *possibility* of requiring an AI 
> assisted review for pull requests, directly available from our 
> canonical repo. I've been occasionaly experimenting Gemini Code Assist 
> and Copilot in my personal fork. Copilot had repeated failures a few 
> weeks ago but seems to have been fixed recently, so I've more 
> experience with /gemini review. I find it useful and it has spotted 
> real issues, some of them would have probably went unnoticed during 
> classic human review, and with an acceptable rate of false positives 
> or debatable remarks.
>
> So my proposal would be to have the tool(s)  enabled in OSGeo/GDAL 
> repo, *on demand* (not sure if that's possible for Copilot. Is that a 
> setting? Although I'm not trusting github enough to be sure if we want 
> to increase our use of it.  Gemini review is definitely on demand and 
> an external github app we can disable in one click) for developers or 
> reviewers that want to trigger them. I don't think having them to run 
> systematically is a good idea, because some PRs are too trivial to get 
> any benefit from them, and having them enabled systematically lead to 
> noise as PR comments and notifications.
>
> I definitely don't think those tools should replace human review. AI 
> tools are instructed to flatter your ego and will never say your PR is 
> a bad idea, which a human reviewer will occasionally say. Or they lack 
> the global picture, etc. I see them as additional tools on top of our 
> CI instrumentation and human review.
>
> Anyone with experience in that area and thoughts?
>
> Even
>
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