# Review scope

`kaal:entity:review-scope`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `review-scope`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2024.

**2021**

- [3995709-017](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-017) [normative/asserted] -- A code review should focus on the functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out, rather than on the reviewer imposing their own stylistic logic.
  > Instead, a code review should focus on functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**2024**

- [4734750-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4734750-012) [design/asserted] -- A code review should focus on the functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out, rather than on conforming code to a reviewer's stylistic logic.
  > Instead, a code review should focus on the functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750
- [4755632-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-022) [normative/argued] *(failure mode)* -- 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.
  > Instead, a code review should focus on the functionality of the code and on keeping mistaken, badly constructed, and dangerous code out.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/review-scope.md | sha256sum

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