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Discussion on: 7 Ways to Dramatically Reduce Your Time in Code Review

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Damian Cyrus

I agree on all the points, as experienced this myself.

1: Keep Pull Requests Small

Communicating in some cases is also a very important part. It could also be included in the description of a comment/ticket/whatever you use to communicate.

This is quite interesting how some see "small" like:

The PR has only moved a component to another one place, updated 400 files because of path updates.
Nothing more. Honestly.

OK, the description is bad, but that helps a lot to speed up the process (with trusting the developer) rather than wast time checking all 400 files. In combination with #6: The pipeline will do a check if the path is fine, so no need to look into more than needed.

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Tyler Hawkins

Great callout! I love leaving little annotations on my own PRs to help my reviewers navigate the PR. Things like an updated file path or formatting changes are great to highlight so reviewers know which pieces are important to look at and which aren't (assuming they trust the code author!).