Alternatives to Code Review Feedback
Code review comments have their place, but there are alternatives. Here is a short collection of things you could do, instead of writing a comment on a pull request.
Some code review comments could be:
- A discussion with the broader team about what software architecture to aim for
- A training session or conversation to help a developer learn something
- Running a coding standards fixer, or introducing it to the build process
- A commit fixing the spelling
- Private constructive feedback to a subordinate
- A ticket to make a separate change in a different pull request
These are just some of the alternative ways of communicating. Sometimes a code review comment is ideal, but on other occasions an alternative approach might be more suitable.