https://github.com/olore/blind-review

A browser extension to help perform unbiased reviews of pull requests
https://github.com/olore/blind-review

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A browser extension to help perform unbiased reviews of pull requests

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/olore/blind-review
• Owner: olore
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-06-19T20:43:07.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-05-02T03:15:45.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-18T10:00:02.130Z (4 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 807 KB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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Blind Review

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A browser extension to help perform unbiased reviews of pull requests.

Install

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- [**Chrome** extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blind-review/mpejgchdkdnopdakonfflegngoehabca) [](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blind-review/mpejgchdkdnopdakonfflegngoehabca)

About

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We all have our own code review biases, whether we admit it or not. 

- "This person always writes good code, I'm just going to merge it" 

- "I better go over this thoroughly because this person screwed things up last time"

- "This was written by a person way smarter than me, I better just approve, they know what they are doing"

- "This person destroyed my last PR, I am going to nitpick the hell out of theirs"

The goal of this extension is to relieve you, the pull-request reviewer, of your known and unknown biases. Treat the code **as the code**, no matter who wrote it.

Take it for a spin and [let me know](https://twitter.com/olore) how it changes your review process.

Building

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- `npm run build` - point Chrome at the `distribution/` directory

- `npm run watch` - dev mode

Screenshots

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Shoutouts

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- Framework for building browser plugins borrowed from the amazing [Sindre Sorhhus](https://github.com/sindresorhus) and his [refined-github](https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github) project.

Inspiration

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- Recoginition of my own bias. Seeing a person's picture or even the recoginition of a cartoon avatar immediately sets the mood of how I am going to review the code. It shouldn't. I know better. But humans are complicated.

- I can't find the original whitepaper published on this topic, but it was pretty interesting. Holler if you can find it. This is close: [Gender differences and bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587), but it was less "women vs men" and more "we ran a study". I'm not solely trying to address the "women vs. men" problem. I think the problem of bias goes much further (young vs old, n00b vs veteran, nice vs pita) - all of which should not influence a code review. The code is the code, no matter where it came from.