[benreesman]

And one engineer can (or could in 2018) put the unix name of the person sitting next to them in the "Reviewed By:" field and force push something, but it isn't/wasn't The Done Thing outside of the most extreme 3am SEV-0 scenarios.

Any two people are in a less-extreme but similar boat: if someone puts up a bad diff and someone without a stake in the code accepts it, they had better hope to hell nothing goes wrong.

SEV review is a remarkably enlightened process for what it is, but you do not want to sit there explaining to extreme-seniority people why you YOLO'd something into Presto without buy in from a Presto hacker with your manager sitting behind you already thinking about how much this is going to get harped on in calibration.

The `OWNERS` file at FB is in `hg log`, but it's there.

[eru]

If I remember right, Google also had a mechanism for pushing something through outside of normal review. But it was something more disciplined than just faking a review by putting your co-workers name in a reviewed-by field.

Because it was more disciplined, those commits could be automatically marked for later review.

[zeroonetwothree]

I believe you cannot force push anymore.

[danbrooks]

Agree. Wasn’t aware of force push (2021-2022).

[benreesman]

That is probably for the best.

In the bad/fun old days of extremely small on-call loop, a less clear/organized escalation chain, and fairly "roll your own" per-team tooling, once in a blue moon a whole business unit would be down because 10k machines were crash-looping and you just needed `if (NULL == ptr) return;` on like one line to end the carnage. There are exceptions to every rule I suppose.

But in 7 years at FB I think I force slammed someone else as reviewer with merely their verbal approval in the middle of the night 2 or 3 times, and never after like, 2015.

[DannyBee]

One can imagine that auditors were not particularly enthused about this :)

[benreesman]

Oh anything on user data or money or illegal content shit or anything like that is a whole different ballgame.

They mail you the shit off your desk for playing games with any of that stuff, and it’s thoroughly, thoroughly checked.