Podcasts Technology Good Code Podcast On code review practices in large open-source projects with Timothy Chen

On code review practices in large open-source projects with Timothy Chen

Published: May 31, 2020, 11:41 a.m.

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We talk to Timothy Chen (@tnachen) about how large open-source projects like Apache Mesos, Kafka, Spark, among others manage code reviews, and contrast the different processes and rigor set by the maintainers. We discuss how finding a balance in the strictness and the scope of the code reviews is important as a new project tries to attract new contributors, and discuss examples from projects who have done this well \\u2014 in addition to those who have not. We also discuss the Broken Window Theory of software maintenance. 

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Timothy is a developer-turned-VC. In the past, he was the founder of HyperPilot and has served as the SVP of Tendermint, where he worked on the Cosmos blockchain SDK. He\'s been a prolific contributor to open-source, with associations to projects like Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Kubernetes. He\'s also a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

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