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[Semi OT] About code review
Jun 27, 2016
deadalnix
Jun 27, 2016
Walter Bright
Jun 27, 2016
Johan Engelen
June 27, 2016
Several people during DConf asked abut tips and tricks on code review. So I wrote an article about it:

http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/
June 27, 2016
On 6/26/2016 5:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/

Nice article!
June 27, 2016
On 6/26/16 8:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Several people during DConf asked abut tips and tricks on code review.
> So I wrote an article about it:
>
> http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/

Very nice. One thing missing: Always remember to update documentation when submitting updates! Can probably be lumped together with tests section.

-Steve
June 27, 2016
On Monday, 27 June 2016 at 00:01:34 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Several people during DConf asked abut tips and tricks on code review. So I wrote an article about it:
>
> http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/

It's a nice read.

One comment: perhaps the balance has tipped a bit much to "making a good PR", rather than "doing a good review". I feel the merit of a review is to improve the contribution, rather than to decide whether it is mergable or not.  Although it is in the article, I think it could be given a little more attention: the review itself should contribute to the project, i.e. the reviewer should (try hard to) propose alternatives if something should/could be improved. Criticism is very easy, _constructive_ criticism isn't; I think the latter is needed to gain a contributor, and the first does the opposite.

-Johan

June 28, 2016
On 6/26/16 8:01 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> Several people during DConf asked abut tips and tricks on code review.
> So I wrote an article about it:
>
> http://www.deadalnix.me/2016/06/27/on-code-review/

Nice work. Let's see: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4q9fl5/on_code_review/ -- Andrei