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If your team wants or needs to do code reviews, but you don't want it to slow down development, you could implement non-blocking code reviews.<\/p>\n\n
Instead of creating a topic branch for a feature or fix, creating a pull or merge request and waiting for it to be reviewed before merging, the commit is merged, and the code is reviewed afterwards.<\/p>\n\n
The ticket workflow could look like this:<\/p>\n\n
To Do -> Doing -> Merged -> Reviewed -> Tested -> Deployed<\/p>\n\n
Or:<\/p>\n\n
To Do -> Doing -> Merged -> Deployed -> Tested -> Reviewed<\/p>\n\n
The focus is getting the update to production, and the review is deferred.<\/p>\n\n
The same CI pipeline rules apply - it must be passing before the code can be deployed, so the same quality checks are run.<\/p>\n\n
With this approach, the code is still reviewed, either in the pull or merge request or by the commits on the mainline branch if doing trunk-based development. It's just done later.<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n
If your team wants or needs to do code reviews, but you don't want it to slow down development, you could implement non-blocking code reviews.<\/p>\n\n
Instead of creating a topic branch for a feature or fix, creating a pull or merge request and waiting for it to be reviewed before merging, the commit is merged, and the code is reviewed afterwards.<\/p>\n\n
The ticket workflow could look like this:<\/p>\n\n
To Do -> Doing -> Merged -> Reviewed -> Tested -> Deployed<\/p>\n\n
Or:<\/p>\n\n
To Do -> Doing -> Merged -> Deployed -> Tested -> Reviewed<\/p>\n\n
The focus is getting the update to production, and the review is deferred.<\/p>\n\n
The same CI pipeline rules apply - it must be passing before the code can be deployed, so the same quality checks are run.<\/p>\n\n
With this approach, the code is still reviewed, either in the pull or merge request or by the commits on the mainline branch if doing trunk-based development. It's just done later.<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ] }