Pull Requests: Merge With Your Team
summary
Argues that pull requests should split responsibility, spread knowledge and distribute skill and gives three concrete practices: agree on formatting and naming rules, automate away style debates with commit hooks, and stop nitpicking so reviews focus on design choices. Recommends language changes to create common ownership, reviewers frame feedback as questions, authors mark fragile or uncertain areas and anyone can self review. Encourages reviewers to give compliments to reinforce good work.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:09WHY ARE CODE REVIEWS IMPORTANT?
- 1:20LIST OF PRIORITIES
- 2:57WHAT DOES A CODE REVIEW ACCOMPLISH? Distribution of responsibility
- 4:11WHAT, EXACTLY, IS THE PROBLEM?
- 6:22FIRST, AGREE ON A WAY OF DOING THINGS
- 7:12SECOND, GET RID OF THE NITPICKING
- 7:54THIRD, COMMUNICATE AS A TEAM
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