This talk will focus on what makes an effective review of Bitcoin Core pull requests (PRs).
Abubakar will outline the key elements that differentiate a good review from a bad one and share strategies for making meaningful contributions, even with limited project context.
Key Topics: How to Make an Impactful Review Without Much Context using: - Testing - Code review - Security considerations - Performance benchmarking - Documentation
How to make impactful Reviews with More Context: - Deeper understanding of the project’s goals and past contributions is necessary for - Conceptual reviews and Approach reviews
Additional review considerations: - Handing minor suggestions (nits) and non-blocking comments - How to appropriately ""NACK"" a PR.
Overall attendees will learn how to distinguish between different types of reviews, identify key areas to focus on during review, and learn some strategies that improve their reviews on bitcoin PR's
