# kaal:claim:3995709-006

**Claim.** Confusion during code review lengthens reviews through a message escalation mechanism: more confusion produces more messages exchanged during discussion, so the review takes longer than it should.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- reviewers encountering unfamiliar code

**Source quote.**

> that more confusion leads to an increase in the number of messages exchanged during the discussion, therefore reviews take longer.34 If there is confusion between the reviewer and the code, the code review will take longer than it should.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), Code Confusion, page 9

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

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**Topics.** open-source-and-code

**Keywords.** code-confusion, review-latency, human-code-issues, code-review

**Related claims.**

- extended_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-023

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