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Re:Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy by rossmohax on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:31AM (#28510632)
PR review time and effort is hard (not possible?) to track by project managers with tools like JIRA and doesn't contribute to a personal performance metrics, so naturally developers are trying to come up with a way to avoid doing it.
Re:Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy by mumblemumble on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:43AM (#28510767)
When you have a bad run-in with Goodhart's Law, don't blame the people who are simply doing their jobs as defined by the incentive structures they've been given. Blame the person who set up bad incentive structures.
Re:Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy by ZephyrBlu on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:40AM (#28510732)
> so naturally developers are trying to come up with a way to avoid doing it

I don't understand this. I very much want someone else to look at my work, because I know how prone I am to mistakes or overlooking something.

Re:Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy by ramraj07 on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:48AM (#28510830)
The poster points to the fact that typically you have Jira tickets to write the code, and that’s assigned to you, and that adds to your velocity, but the reviewer of the code doesn’t get any credit for spending time on this. Thus in teams where the program manager doesn’t try to account for code review and they actually try to incentivize velocity (both stupid), you’re not incentivized to do thorough code reviews.
Re:Ship / Show / Ask: A modern branching strategy by heywherelogingo on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:42AM (#28510746)
I think you've read that the wrong way round.