We first discovered patch-review related work by searching Google Scholar 2 with the keywords “patch review” and “patch acceptance” 3, which rendered an initial set of publications. We then expanded these publications by searching their references and citations. We iterated this expanding process until no new publication emerged. During these two steps, we read only the title and abstract of a search result to quickly determine whether it was related to patch review. At this point, we identified 26 related papers, which were published in 14 different venues including ESEC/FSE (the European Software Engineering Conference/Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering), ICSE (the International Conference on Software Engineering), WCRE (the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering) and MSR (the Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories).