On 2014-06-25 09:43, roger peppe wrote:

About pre-review annotations, I agree with Ian that the code should be
documented
well enough that someone coming to it from scratch can understand it, but
I also wonder if there is a room for review-specific comments, talking about
reasons for the changes themselves in the specific context of that review.

There is, I think. But should it be quite so close to the code, where it competes against commenting for the coder's time?

Don't know if there's a definite answer, because either way we assume a human process to complement the technical solution. But if a coder starts by reviewing their own code, perhaps they should also turn these notes into a single coherent "cover letter" and, in explaining, perhaps spot structural flaws or anticipate questions.


Jeroen

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