Tech Retro: Pull Request Ethics

Pull requests are part and parcel of a soft engineer’s life unless you work in a horrible place where people just merge the codes to master directly. How a team handles the pull request and code reviews tells a lot about the team’s culture.

Last week we were discussing pull request ethics in our bi-weekly tech retros in Traveloka.com. Some of the points we discussed are, they should have meaning commit message and description and criticism about code should never offend anyone. If your team is relatively new, you can think about setting some ethical standard about pull requests to avoid conflicts and maintain healthy relationships. Here are my two cents about pull request ethics:

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