# kaal:claim:3995709-015

**Claim.** The hierarchical approach to code reviews undermines long term participation and opinion from the edges of the reviewer spectrum, because those reviewers either have no access or are in no position to help review the code.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- hierarchical legacy review processes

**Source quote.**

> The hierarchical approach to code reviews undermines long-term participation with opinion from the edges of the reviewer spectrum because those reviewers either have no access or are in no position to help review the code.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), Flawed Code Review Process, page 13

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

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `6d77dbfb15ee86080bfde0b98089180cabafeb6defdf0f05eaaeb3cb99871e89` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20How%20DAOs%20Optimize%20Open-Source%20Code%20Reviews%20and%20Create%20Open-Source%20Standards.pdf

**Failure mode.** exclusion of edge reviewers  (family: governance-participation-collapse)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** hierarchy, reviewer-access, participation, failure-mode

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-010

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