kaal:claim:4755632-022
Without crowd control the reviewer's views and the code author's intent are at odds, so a reviewer imposing their own logic can force repeated rewrites of code whose core functionality is already sound; a code review should instead focus on functionality and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.
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Instead, a code review should focus on the functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.
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normativesupport: arguedfailure: Reviewer Logic Impositionfamily: board-and-oversight-failureopen-source-and-code
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