We have the most users on Android and it's alphabetically first, which is why it's set that way.  And since I work on Android the most, not sure I want to change it :P

Depends what the workflow is. If somebody wants to find out if something is already on Canary or Dev, Windows is better.

Time for a more serious response, because it's now obvious that some of the long term plans I have for this dashboard weren't clear based on another bug that's come up.

One of the primary reasons this page is open to the public is because I have specific plans to use it to help users of Chrome for Android.  Users frequently ask for change lists for releases, from canary all the way to stable.  We currently have no means to provide that for them in an easy way.  To solve this, I plan to link directly to Chromium Dash on a view that can provide these details per channel directly from our Play Store listing.  Thus, by default, I'd prefer users be directed to Android - I think we're going to get the most usage from these external users so I'd like to optimize for them.

I agree that perhaps that's not completely optimal for V8 developers.  To solve this, I would like us to introduce the concept of a "default platform" setting that we store per-user.  I'm not sure if this is local storage, a cookie, stored in NDB or what - but that way everyone could pick what works best for them, but we'd also be able to optimize for the most common case, which (as I'm hoping) is external users from the Play Store.

If you'd like to change this bug to discuss implementing a per-user persistent preference, I'm happy to do that, but I'm pretty solid on what the default should be here.

How about making the platform a part of the URL by setting it via a GET parameter for example? That way we would have a sensible default value for users using the page (Chromium/V8 developers) and a specialised one to be supplied for linking on the Playstore.

That would also make it more easy to share a link to a commit btw.

 Issue 811271  has been merged into this issue.

See duped issue for an additional request as part of this - showing links per platform by default in views like "Commit" to obviate the need for platform selection entirely.

 Issue 821493  has been merged into this issue.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chrome-internal.googlesource.com/infra/infra_internal/+/a0e2f638b82babf067cde5a59154fbf5a5031fe0

commit a0e2f638b82babf067cde5a59154fbf5a5031fe0
Author: Prasad Vuppalapu <prasadv@google.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 21:07:00 2018

This has been implemented and appears to be working as intended. Closing this out now.