Where reviews are stored

• All feedback lives in one .deciwa/ folder, never next to your sources (All deciwa files in one .de... (DEC_DECIWA_FOLDER)): at the repository root, or in a parent folder for several repositories at once or for repositories that must stay untouched. deciwa init [--at <folder>] creates it.

• One file per reviewed source, in an openly documented JSON format – your data is never locked in.

• .deciwa/ is committed to Git by default (.deciwa/ is committed to Gi... (DEC_GIT_COMMITTED)), so reviews are versioned together with the content.

• All review data can be exported as one deciwa file and imported again – it then replaces the data, and a file older than the current data is refused. Without a server this is how a review leaves the browser.

Hosted service

Teams can sync .deciwa/ with the hosted service instead (0.4). It adds a web UI for reviewers outside development, a task list per person, evaluations (coverage, ratings, weak areas, time to approval), comparisons between versions, a team overview, an audit report (who approved which wording when), users and roles.