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Vesin Dusko
Vesin Dusko

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Code owners and review in GitHub

Code review is one of the standards for good code quality and knowledge sharing inside teams. During my carrier, I have seen a lot of different setups, and some of them are better than others.

We are using GithHub PRs as a moment for quality control. It allows us to establish rules when a code from a working branch can be merged with the development branch.

One of the basic rules is code review. All PRs have this type of protection. At least one member of the architect team should give its approval and at least two other developers.

The other gate is that at least one of the code owners of changed files should also do a code review. The concept of code owners is not a well-known functionality of GitHub, but we found it very powerful and valuable.

Details about this functionality you can find on GitHub and examples you can see at todo example.

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The good thing about code owners is that any file or folder in the code can have different owners or GitHub groups, and by it, you can make sure that the right people have done code reviews.

Also, in the case of the larger PRs, the reviewer can adjust the filter to see only files you are responsible for, speeding up the review process.
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