The Art of Commit Messages: Lessons from the Classroom

One of the reasons why it is difficult to work with legacy code is the lack of preserving the contextual reasons for past coding choices. 

Today we talk with Chelsea Troy, a Machine Learning Team Lead at Mozilla and a computer science lecturer at the University of Chicago. She tells us about the value of code review in the software-building process and why code review should not be treated solely as a mechanism for approval. 

When you finish listening to the episode, visit Chelsea's website at https://chelseatroy.com.

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Chelsea’s website at https://chelseatroy.com