Ask HN: What are you working on?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by habosa on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:24AM (#25789129)

I'm working on better code review for GitHub.

If you're part of a small team that writes code on GitHub but isn't satisfied with their code review tools, send me an email: sam [at] habosa [dot] com

We're in very early Alpha but definitely ready for some more early adopters.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by vickodin on Friday January 15, 2021 @08:50PM (#25799128)

Hi! What is wrong with github's code review? You means the pull requests?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by habosa on Monday January 18, 2021 @05:38AM (#25820346)

Yes I mean the process of reviewing a Pull Request, especially a complex one with multiple rounds of feedback.

Some major issues, in my opinion:

  * The review is spread over 4 tabs, with "Conversation" being the default and "Files" being the 4th even though "Files" is clearly the most important
  * Comments can become "outdated" and lost as code changes even if they were still relevant
  * There are too many ways to do one thing. "Leave a comment" vs. "Start a review".  "Comment" vs "Request Changes".  "Requested reviewers" vs. "Assignees", etc. It's all built up over time into a bit of a mess.

So ... I think I can do better! And I think I can do it in a way that's easy to layer on top of GitHub so that teams can still enjoy all of the other amazing things about developing code there.

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