Developer Satisfaction Survey/2021/Categories/Code review

   📖 Developer Satisfaction 2021 The developer satisfaction survey is an annual survey of the Wikimedia developer community. The survey asks questions about Wikimedia developer tooling, practices, and documentation.

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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."

<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

Comments were mixed. Some comments were about social problems. Some were about tooling problems. It's unclear whether the 52% satisfaction is satisfaction with the tooling, social aspects, or something in-between. Next survey: two sections.



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 were coded "volunteer equity".



The correlation above uses Spearman correlation. The correlation moderate (0.66 on a scale from -1 to +1). This question correlated most strongly with overall satisfaction.

Raw Data
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