Honestly, the criticism of the freebsd code review process seems way overblown. To me, it looks like a smaller team that works well together in a less formal manner, and someone exploited that.

They caught it, the person has lost trust, they all moved on. Big whup.

FWIW, "good review" is pretty debatable (source: was involved) -- it provides a decent overview, but you should read it with the thought in mind that the author did some pretty heavy cherry-picking to support their arguments. Also, this indeed is not "Kernel Debugging Quarterly."

I would suggest the LWN article instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26572370

Wow, evil landlords, C being bad. All my favorite things to discuss in one article!

Wow. Thanks for that link.