A Pull Request Journey

PR Review WG

Stefano Magni - Rob Dominguez - Daniel Chambers

The problem:

Our PRs

stay open

for 7 days

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10 interviews

6 meetings

3 documents

Slides are boring!!

Storytelling, please!!!!

The story is fiction 😊

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But the problems

are real 😊

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🚨 Big PR 🚨

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🚨 No PR description 🚨

🚨 Big PR 🚨

🚨 No direct reviewers 🚨

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🚨 Reviewers have no time 🚨

🚨 Timezone incompatibility 🚨

🚨 CI issues 🚨

How

to fix them?

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βœ… Describe your PR in details βœ…

βœ… Write tests βœ…

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βœ… Assign the PR to individuals βœ…

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βœ…Β GH Slack integration + Haystack report βœ…

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βœ… Reduce PR size βœ…

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βœ…Β Explicitly allocate time for reviews βœ…

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🚨 CI issues 🚨

πŸŽ‰ There's a dedicated WG πŸŽ‰

PR authors must

  • Reduce the scope of the PRs
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  • Describe PRs in details
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  • Write tests
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  • Assign PRs to individuals from their own team
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  • Do not start working on new tasks until the PR is merged
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  • Use Github's Slack integration

PR reviewers must
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  • Dedicate some time slots every day to review other people's PRs (the cross-team ones too)
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  • Report the tested functionalities
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  • Use Github's Slack integration

Team managers must
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  • Understand that PR reviews are a team's responsibility, not just an individual's responsibility
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  • Retrospectively understand if/why people need a lot of time to review PRs
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  • Enable Slack reports using Haystack for the team PRs

Guess what?
A document with these best practices already exists!

What happens if we do not apply

these best practices?

That we start working on a lot of things

but we release just a few...

A lot of bugs hit our users

That a lot of PRs remain orphans and

we need to automatically close them

What about the ideal situation?

More pair programming

No blocking reviews but post-mortem reviews

A lot of trusted and stable tests

Fast and reliable CI pipelines

PRs are released in production right after being merged

What's next?

βœ… Include PR reviews

in the onboarding docs

⏳ Check how long the PRs

stay open on a monthly basis

⏳ Spread the word and the resources

WE NEED YOU!

PR reviews cannot be improved

without the individual efforts

of each PR author and reviewer!

Thank you!

PR Review WG

Stefano Magni - Rob Dominguez - Daniel Chambers

For getting interviewed
Nikunj - Abby - Tom Harding - Nithin - Priya

Jesse Hallett - Solomon - Shraddha

Daniele - Karthikeyan

For participating

Aaron Johnson - Shraddha Agrawal - Auke - Bilal - Brandon Martin - Brandon Simmons - Daniel Chambers - Daniel Harvey - Greg - Aravind KP - Manas - Marion - Matthew - Nicolas Beaussart Hatchuel - Ojas - Rikin - Samir - Solomon - Stef - Vamshi - Vijay

PR authors

  • Reduce the scope of the PRs
  • Describe PRs in details
  • Write tests
  • Assign PRs to individuals
  • Do not start working on new tasks

PR reviewers

  • Dedicate some time slots
  • Report the tested functionalities
  • Use Github's Slack integration

Team managers

  • Get the PR to review a team's matter
  • Enable Haystack reports for PRs

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