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Welcome to Qodo Merge

Thanks for installing on this repository Qodo Merge - an AI-powered tool designed to enhance your pull requests with various automatic feedback.

When a new PR will be opened in your repository, Qodo Merge will automatically analyze the code changes and provide helpful feedback as comments.

Your Auto-Generated Repo's Best Practices File

By analyzing your repository's PR discussions from the past year, we've generated an initial best_practices.md file tailored to your codebase.
This file contains insights extracted from your team's code reviews and discussions, and will help Qodo Merge to give more tailored code suggestions.

Note - This file aims to capture specific patterns to your repository's workflow and discussions, rather than providing more generic best practices. We hope this auto-generated file can serve as a foundation that the team will continue to refine and expand with additional relevant patterns over time.

Steps to Utilize This File:

  1. Review the generated best_practices.md file in this PR
  2. Edit the file if needed. For example, remove irrelevant patterns, or add new ones.
  3. Commit the modified file. Afterwards, Qodo Merge will utilize it automatically to generate best-practices suggestions for new PRs.

Happy coding!

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Qodo Merge will provide by default automatic code suggestions for each new PR.

  • Purpose of Code Suggestions:

    1. Self-reflection: The suggestions aim to enable developers to self-reflect and improve their pull requests. This process helps identify blind spots, uncover missed edge cases, and enhance code readability and coherency. Even when a specific suggestion isn't suitable, the underlying issue it highlights often reveals something important.
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Replace the specific focus on early-exit/guard branches with a broader
principle: unit tests should aspire to 100% coverage of all normal
execution paths and reasonably testable error cases. This reframing
provides clearer guidance that PRs should include tests for new code
paths and should not reduce overall coverage.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add detailed guidance explaining the three key aspects of handling
critical failures: don't continue after failures, raise exceptions to
allow event-level recovery without crashing the entire tool, and
ensure sufficient logging context for debugging. This clarifies the
balance between resilience and fail-fast behavior.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add comprehensive explanation of three key principles for exception
handling: focus try blocks on single failure points with clear except
actions, use specific exception targets with hierarchical exception
classes where appropriate, and consider context managers as
alternatives. This provides clearer guidance on writing robust
exception handling code.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Remove the pattern about caching stable identifiers versus ORM objects
as it is too specific in scope for a general best practices list. The
remaining patterns have been renumbered accordingly (Pattern 7 becomes
Pattern 6).

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
Add detailed explanation breaking down the grab-bag pattern into four
distinct principles: testing behaviors versus implementation details,
understanding unit scope for efficient mocking, maintaining consistent
patching patterns across tests, and using readability tricks when
Black's formatting creates noise. This clarifies the multiple concerns
addressed by this pattern.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
@ralphbean ralphbean requested a review from webbnh January 27, 2026 15:59
webbnh

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Move the guidance about working around Black's formatting from Pattern 6
(testing) into a new Pattern 7 focused specifically on code readability.
This makes it clearer that the Black guidance applies to all code, not
just tests.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralph Bean <rbean@redhat.com>
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Looks good (although there is one nit).

Comment on lines +265 to +266
# Or use a single string that Black won't break
log.error("Failed to sync %s/%s from %s to JIRA project %s component %s", repo_owner, repo_name, upstream_url, jira_project_key, jira_component)
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Sadly, Black reformats that back to what you had originally.

If you want to take advantage of it not breaking strings, then the line has to be one string, e.g.,

log.error(
    f"Failed to sync {repo_owner}/{repo_owner} from {repo_owner} to JIRA project {jira_project_key} component {jira_component}"
)

That's kind of a horrible example (especially since we shouldn't use f-strings in log calls), but it's illustrative.

And, if you want to show breaking strings,

# Or use multiple strings that Black won't touch, but that Python will re-join                                                                                                                                      
log.error(
    f"Failed to sync {repo_owner}/{repo_owner} from {repo_owner} to "
    f"JIRA project {jira_project_key} component {jira_component}"
)

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