Developer Satisfaction Survey/2021/Categories/Code review

   📖 Developer Satisfaction 2021 The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community.

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Social vs Tooling
"💬 'Satisfaction with Code Review' seems too broad of a statement. Not sure if you are asking about social workflows or specific software tools."

Comments mention social and tooling issues. It's unclear whether the 52% overall satisfaction is about code review tooling, social dynamics, both, or neither.

Room for improvement next year.

<div class="dss-main_big-numbers"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-blue"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-number">38% <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-icon">💬 <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> 38% of comments mention social problems in code review

<div class="dss-main_big-numbers-green"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-number">50% <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-icon">🔢 <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> 50% of comments mention tooling problems in code review

Developer Equity
"why are people not reviewing my patches :( – Volunteer Developer"

<div class="dss-main_big-numbers dss-main_big-numbers-blue"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-number">21% <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-icon">🙏 <div class="dss-main_big-numbers-explainer"> 21% of comments were about "volunteer equity". Staff's perception is that it's harder for volunteers to get review. Volunteers said it's hard to get review. Both comments are "volunteer equity" comments.



There is a moderate (0.66 on a scale of -1 to +1 using Spearman's rank correlation) correlation between timely review and overall satisfaction with code review. This question had the strongest correlation with overall satisfaction.

Raw Data
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