[mdo]

Code review tooling has been in the works for a long time. It's sadly taking us this long to actually ship the first fundamental bits, but there's a ton that this unlocks for us. Expect to see more soon :).

(Source: I worked on code review at GitHub for awhile!)

[Pxtl]

In that case, is there any plans for your processes to change to get a more rapid release-cycle? Going dark for N months to implement a feature seems to fly in the face of the workflow GitHub tends to inspire.

[jdavis703]

Sometimes you're on a rapid release cycle making non-user facing changes that will allow you to release new user-facing features. I have no idea if this is what was going on at Github, but I've been at plenty of places where the code and/or infrastructure was so messed up, seemingly trivial updates would take weeks and months to complete.

[mdo]

I think the goal is to ship a lot more, yes :D.