Could there be a way to award the points proportionally, based on how useful the feedback is?
Comment on Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software?
lhamil64@programming.dev 7 months agoOne issue I can see with the points system is that people could just approve it with a “Looks good to me!” without even looking at the code. Or just looking at a small portion of the code.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
kassuro@feddit.de 7 months ago
But who decides that? If the person who requested it can do this, you only need a friend to abuse the system and give each other a few extra points.
Maybe a open point history could help with this and users moderate themselves with this.
kassuro@feddit.de 7 months ago
Yeah that’s definitely a possibility. It’s really a tricky topic to build a review community. One could try other approaches like dedicated volunteer reviewers. But if you look at exorcism, that will become hard to manage for languages with huge demand.
A system where everyone also needs to review is definitely better. Especially since everyone also learns reading other peoples code.
coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 7 months ago
Also bike shedding. Simple stuff may get many people willing to review / argue about how you should have used A over B, or even C
Big / complicated projects - forget it. Especially if if they would need major refactoring.