DrupalCon Lille: Peer Code Review Best Practices

Jess, a Drupal Core Release Manager, conducted a session titled "A Drupal core maintainer shares peer code review best practices" at DrupalCon Lille aimed at improving peer code review processes and Drupal contributions. The presentation, now available on the Drupal Association's YouTube channel, offers insights on enhancing maintainability and productivity while reducing costs through effective peer code reviews.

Jess, leveraging over ten years of Drupal core experience, emphasizes the importance of peer code reviews in building a shared understanding within development teams.

The session delves into Drupal core's peer code review process, including two distinct phases and the involvement of core committers in mentoring contributors. Additionally, the presentation explores research and psychological principles for effective code reviews, techniques to structure change sets for reviewers, and the utilization of automation and tooling to streamline the review process for improved code quality and maintainability.