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Hierarchical code review undermines long-term participation by reviewers at the edges of the reviewer spectrum, because those reviewers either have no access to the code or no standing to help review it.

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

Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024), Market for Code Reviews, p. 14
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Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

• hierarchical review processes with entry barriers

failuresupport: arguedfailure: Exclusion of edge reviewersfamily: governance-participation-collapserisk-and-incentivesinstitutional-design

• restates kaal:claim:3995709-015 The hierarchical approach to code reviews undermines long term participation and opinion from the edges of the...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-017 The more hierarchical the code review process, the lower the quality of the reviewed code, and the same holds ...
• extends kaal:claim:3995709-012 The more hierarchical the code review process and the more barriers to entry it imposes, the lower the quality...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-020 More reviewers asking clarifying questions makes code simpler and clearer, which typically increases code qual...
• extended_by kaal:claim:4755632-019 The collective of reviewers in legacy code review is not incentivized to find flaws in the code, because the r...
• extends kaal:claim:3995709-013 In hierarchical legacy review processes the first reviewer's output gets the highest priority and follow on re...

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