"Pull Requests create blocking problems as people wait for approvals or merges. This has yielded many new experiments and practices—async pull requests, ephemeral PR environments, and byzantine branching strategies.
I can't help but wonder if we're spiraling toward complexity here for no good reason."
#softwareengineering #developerexperience #pullrequests #continuousintegration
https://newsletter.nerdnoir.com/p/modernizing-extreme-programming
@fazzaro
Although the blocking nature of PRs is obvious when you are exposed to it, describing it this way and then observing how needlessly complex the solutions are is a really neat way to understand the problem. Thank you.