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by ArkyBeagle 3694 days ago
1) Commits don't have to be blocked. The action items from a review can be a separate commit.

2) Reviews can be done privately, with comments entered electronically. There doesn't have to be a four-day meeting.

2a) Organizations that use four-day meetings are likely full of people who need something to charge that time to. It may be worth delegating a representative from the engineering team to attend those.

3) Action items must be triaged. Ideally, each action item would be assigned a number and numbers grouped together as a statement of work for a commit. This is much less painful than it sounds. Test provenance would also be nice per commit.