MAKERS & BUILDERS - A Drupal core maintainer shares peer code review best practices

This talk focuses on enhancing peer code review processes, improving code maintainability, and fostering Drupal contributions. The speaker, a Drupal core release manager with over a decade of core experience, discusses the significance of peer code reviews in reducing defects by as much as 80-90 percent. The session explains the two phases of Drupal core's peer review process, which involve initial contributor reviews followed by final assessments from core committers who serve as mentors and subject matter experts. Attendees will also learn about effective review practices, research-backed principles on the efficacy of code reviews, and automation tools that help streamline the review process and maintain quality.