Adservio Code Review Analysis
A read-only analysis of recent merge request review behavior in GitLab, focused on visible review discussion, reviewer distribution, queue health, MR size, and traceability gaps.
Executive Summary
Bottom line: review throughput is not the main risk here; traceability and queue hygiene are. The team is still merging code, but most merges leave no durable visible review trail and the open queue is overwhelmingly stale.
What Matters
- Traceability is the clearest control gap: 51 of 61 merged MRs (83.6%) showed no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- `CR - Approved` is currently too weak as evidence on its own: 52.5% of merged MRs carried that label without any visible review discussion.
- Queue health is poor: 76.5% of active open MRs are already older than 48 working hours. The oldest example is adservio/web!2091 at 221.5d open.
- Visible review capacity is thin and concentrated: only 11 visible review touches were detected in the whole window, and the top 3 reviewers handled 90.9% of them.
- adservio/frontend is the highest-volume review surface with 33 merged MRs and only 15.2% visible review coverage.
- MR size is not the main story: median changed files were 4, and only 14.8% of merged MRs were above 20 files. Even the slowest merged example, adservio/uni/backend!172, took 34.5d with 32 changed files, so the dominant problem still looks like review discipline and queue ownership rather than consistently oversized MRs.
Leadership Analysis
- This does not read like a slow-review system. The median last-author-commit to first-review time was 6.3h, so the dominant weakness is decision recording and merge discipline, not reviewer reaction speed.
- With 76.5% of active MRs already stale, the open list is functioning more like inventory than prioritization support. adservio/web!2091 being open for 221.5d is a strong sign that ownership and review handoffs are not being actively reset.
- Reviewer concentration is now a resilience issue, not just a fairness issue. When the top 3 reviewers carry 90.9% of visible touches, review quality, continuity, and queue health all become sensitive to a very small set of people.
- The spread between a 4-file median MR and a 34.5d longest merged cycle (adservio/uni/backend!172, 32 changed files) suggests a few ownership-heavy exceptions are dragging on outside normal flow. Those should be managed as explicit escalations, not left to age inside the common queue.
Recommended Actions
- Make one durable review artifact mandatory before merge: a substantive non-author GitLab review comment, a recorded approval, or both. A label alone should no longer count as sufficient evidence. The approval API coverage is also low, so the fix should include tooling or policy that leaves an auditable trace by default.
- Run a stale-MR reset on anything older than 48 working hours: close abandoned work, re-confirm owner and reviewer on the rest, and turn the open list back into a real queue instead of a parking lot. Start with adservio/web!2091 and the rest of the oldest backlog because their age now obscures whether they are still real priorities.
- Put adservio/devops/iac under explicit review guardrails for the next cycle. It combines enough volume with weak visible review coverage, which makes it the best place to tighten the process and see impact quickly.
- Broaden the reviewer bench beyond Dragoș Ivan and the current small reviewer set. The present concentration is a continuity risk and will keep queue health fragile when one person is away.
Improvement Ideas
- Set explicit operating standards for the next quarter: require one auditable peer-review artifact before merge, target first review inside one working day for active MRs, and keep the stale active backlog below 15%. What gets measured this clearly is far more likely to improve.
- Run a four-week process experiment on adservio/devops/iac: dedicated reviewer-of-the-week coverage, explicit reviewer assignment at MR creation, and a lightweight weekly audit of silent merges. It is the highest-yield place to test whether better ownership changes the data.
- Create a reviewer rotation with named backup coverage for the busiest repos. Good review systems depend on redundancy, not heroics, and rotation is the fastest way to lower reviewer bus factor without slowing delivery.
Supporting Evidence
- 51 of 61 merged MRs (83.6%) had no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- 42 of 61 merged MRs (68.9%) carried the `CR - Approved` label.
- 32 merged MRs (52.5%) were labeled `CR - Approved` without any visible non-author review comment.
- 14.8% of merged MRs changed more than 20 files, while 8.2% changed more than 50 files.
- Among MRs with visible review discussion, the median last-author-commit to first-review time was 6.3h.
- The median last-author-commit to `CR - Approved` time was 7.3h.
- The top 3 reviewers accounted for 90.9% of visible review touches.
- 39 of 51 active open MRs (76.5%) were older than 48 working hours.
Merged MRs Merged MRs inside the analysis window. | 61 |
Open MRs All currently open group MRs. | 54 |
Active open MRs Open MRs excluding drafts. | 51 |
Draft open MRs Open MRs marked draft/WIP. | 3 |
Visible review rate Merged MRs with at least one visible non-author GitLab comment. | 16.4% |
Merged without visible review comment Merged MRs with zero visible non-author comments. | 83.6% |
CR - Approved label coverage Merged MRs carrying the CR-approved label. | 68.9% |
Approval API coverage Merged MRs with at least one approver in the GitLab approvals API. | 16.4% |
CR - Approved without visible review comment CR-approved MRs with no visible non-author comment. | 52.5% |
Median MR created -> first review Working time from MR creation to first visible non-author comment. | 7.0h |
Median last author commit -> first review Working time from last author commit before review to first visible non-author comment. | 6.3h |
Median first review -> CR - Approved Working time from first visible comment to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 2.4h |
Median MR created -> CR - Approved Working time from MR creation to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 8.5h |
Median last author commit -> CR - Approved Working time from last author commit before review to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 7.3h |
Median MR created -> merged Working time from MR creation to merge. | 21.4h |
Median changed files Median GitLab `changes_count` value. | 4 |
MRs > 5 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 5. | 42.6% |
MRs > 10 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 10. | 27.9% |
MRs > 20 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 20. | 14.8% |
MRs > 50 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 50. | 8.2% |
Top 3 reviewer touch share Share of visible review touches handled by the top 3 reviewers. | 90.9% |
Active open backlog rate Non-draft open MRs older than 48 working hours. | 76.5% |
Timing Breakdown
These headline timing medians bring back the anchor-to-anchor numbers directly, using working time with weekends excluded.
| Median MR created -> first review | 7.0h |
| Median last author commit -> first review | 6.3h |
| Median MR created -> CR - Approved | 8.5h |
| Median first review -> CR - Approved | 2.4h |
| Median last author commit -> CR - Approved | 7.3h |
| Median MR created -> merged | 21.4h |
Reviewer Distribution
| Dragoș Ivan | 6 | 8 | 54.5% |
| Ioana Ivan | 2 | 10 | 18.2% |
| George Murgoci | 2 | 5 | 18.2% |
| Alex Murarescu | 1 | 8 | 9.1% |
Repo Breakdown
| adservio/frontend | 33 | 15.2% | 78.8% | 3 |
| adservio/admission/backend | 6 | 50.0% | 66.7% | 15.0 |
| adservio/devops/iac | 6 | 0.0% | 33.3% | 3.5 |
| adservio/web | 5 | 0.0% | 80.0% | 4 |
| adservio/helm2 | 3 | 0.0% | 33.3% | 1 |
| adservio/audit | 2 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5 |
| adservio/billing/backend | 2 | 50.0% | 100.0% | 15.5 |
| adservio/uni/backend | 2 | 0.0% | 50.0% | 16.5 |
| adservio/docgen2/backend | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4 |
| adservio/forms/backend | 1 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 6 |
Visible Review Discussion MRs
Compact by default: key CR metrics stay visible, and each row expands inline for the full audit trail. The table starts sorted by Last Commit -> First Review.
| Details | ||||||
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| adservio/admission/backend!139 | [ADS-7425]: Session Fees | 5/5 Deep | 0.9h | 0.2h | 1.5h | |
Repo adservio/admission/backend Author Dragoș Ivan Reviewers Alex Murarescu, George Murgoci Review Comments 11 Quality Notes 11 visible comments; 2 substantive comments; 2 reviewers; 4 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 2 Reviewer Count 2 Post-Review Pushes 4 MR Created 2026-05-15 13:52 Last Author Commit 2026-05-15 14:33 First Review 2026-05-15 14:46 CR Approved 2026-05-15 15:21 Merged 2026-05-18 11:37 First Review -> CR Approved 0.6h Last Commit -> CR Approved 0.8h Created -> Merged 21.7h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1826 | [hotfix]-form validation fixes | 4/5 Strong | 3.7h | 1.5h | 6.5h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author George Murgoci Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 3 Quality Notes 3 visible comments; 3 substantive comments; single reviewer; 1 post-review push; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 3 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-05-19 08:12 Last Author Commit 2026-05-19 10:19 First Review 2026-05-19 11:51 CR Approved 2026-05-19 14:44 Merged 2026-05-19 14:45 First Review -> CR Approved 2.9h Last Commit -> CR Approved 4.4h Created -> Merged 6.5h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1828 | [ADS-7625] Add post message on close for Create News Modal | 3/5 Solid | 1.9h | 1.8h | 2.0h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Alex Murarescu Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer; 1 post-review push Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-05-19 11:05 Last Author Commit 2026-05-19 11:16 First Review 2026-05-19 13:02 CR Approved 2026-05-19 13:04 Merged 2026-05-19 13:05 First Review -> CR Approved 0.0h Last Commit -> CR Approved 1.8h Created -> Merged 2.0h | ||||||
| adservio/forms/backend!17 | [hotfix]-form validation fixes | 3/5 Solid | 3.3h | 2.3h | 6.5h | |
Repo adservio/forms/backend Author George Murgoci Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer; 2 post-review pushes Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 2 MR Created 2026-05-19 08:12 Last Author Commit 2026-05-19 09:13 First Review 2026-05-19 11:32 CR Approved 2026-05-19 14:45 Merged 2026-05-19 14:45 First Review -> CR Approved 3.2h Last Commit -> CR Approved 5.5h Created -> Merged 6.6h | ||||||
| adservio/admission/backend!140 | [hotfix]-form validation fixes | 3/5 Solid | 3.6h | 3.7h | 5.0h | |
Repo adservio/admission/backend Author George Murgoci Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer; 1 post-review push Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-05-19 08:12 Last Author Commit 2026-05-19 08:09 First Review 2026-05-19 11:50 CR Approved 2026-05-19 13:12 Merged 2026-05-19 14:45 First Review -> CR Approved 1.4h Last Commit -> CR Approved 5.0h Created -> Merged 6.5h | ||||||
| adservio/admission/backend!144 | [ADS-7373] - new columns on exported csv/pdf/excel | 1/5 Very light | 10.3h | 9.0h | 10.4h | |
Repo adservio/admission/backend Author George Murgoci Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; comments look lightweight; single reviewer Substantive Comments 0 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 0 MR Created 2026-05-20 10:22 Last Author Commit 2026-05-20 11:42 First Review 2026-05-20 20:41 CR Approved 2026-05-20 20:44 Merged 2026-05-20 20:44 First Review -> CR Approved 0.1h Last Commit -> CR Approved 9.0h Created -> Merged 10.4h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1813 | [ADS-7425]: Session Fees | 4/5 Strong | 19.9h | 18.8h | 21.7h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Dragoș Ivan Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 5 Quality Notes 5 visible comments; 5 substantive comments; single reviewer; 2 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 5 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 2 MR Created 2026-05-15 13:53 Last Author Commit 2026-05-15 14:55 First Review 2026-05-18 09:45 CR Approved 2026-05-18 11:36 Merged 2026-05-18 11:37 First Review -> CR Approved 1.8h Last Commit -> CR Approved 20.7h Created -> Merged 21.7h | ||||||
| adservio/billing/backend!242 | [ADS-5949] Upgraded local processor for subscriptions | 3/5 Solid | 6.9d | 19.4h | 20.0d | |
Repo adservio/billing/backend Author Edgar Alexa Reviewers George Murgoci Review Comments 2 Quality Notes 2 visible comments; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer; 8 post-review pushes Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 8 MR Created 2026-04-21 10:42 Last Author Commit 2026-04-29 13:42 First Review 2026-04-30 09:09 CR Approved 2026-05-19 11:19 Merged 2026-05-19 11:20 First Review -> CR Approved 13.1d Last Commit -> CR Approved 13.9d Created -> Merged 20.0d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1827 | [ADS-6870] Ștergere note în perioade blocate | 3/5 Solid | 34.2h | 27.8h | 2.1d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Petronel Pavel Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer; 1 post-review push Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-05-19 10:15 Last Author Commit 2026-05-19 16:44 First Review 2026-05-20 20:30 CR Approved 2026-05-21 11:57 Merged 2026-05-21 12:55 First Review -> CR Approved 15.5h Last Commit -> CR Approved 43.2h Created -> Merged 2.1d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1766 | [S - ADS-6661][Situatie scolara] - US4 Echivalari | 4/5 Strong | 9.4d | 42.3h | 9.5d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Achim Stefan Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 5 Quality Notes 5 visible comments; 5 substantive comments; single reviewer; 5 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 5 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 5 MR Created 2026-05-03 21:10 Last Author Commit 2026-05-13 15:38 First Review 2026-05-15 09:56 CR Approved 2026-05-15 12:53 Merged 2026-05-17 22:47 First Review -> CR Approved 2.9h Last Commit -> CR Approved 45.3h Created -> Merged 10.0d | ||||||
No Visible Review Comment Audit
These merged MRs had no visible non-author GitLab comment under the current heuristic. Use this section to audit whether the gap is a real review-process issue or a GitLab traceability issue.
Total MRs51
With CR Label32
With Approval API9
- Open the MR link and check the Overview tab for
CR - Approvedand any approval widget signal. - Check Activity / Discussions for real human reviewer comments.
- If you only see system notes, merge notes, mentions, or bot activity, it stays in this audit set.
- If you find a genuine reviewer comment from someone other than the author, treat that MR as a false positive of this heuristic.
full audit table (51 MRs). Click again to collapse.
| adservio/uni/backend!172 | adservio/uni/backend | [S: ADS-6661][ADS-7060]: [Catalog][Situatie scolara] - US4 Echivalari | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-05-17 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1817 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7586]: Loading incorect pe class subject | Ioana Ivan | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/web!2493 | adservio/web | [ADS-4701] get elevi - added e2cIsActive on class details response | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-05-18 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1809 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-4701] Nu funcționează adăugarea unei suprascrieri în Catalogul PDF al... | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-18 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1811 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-4592] Setare by default a materiilor de la -Selectați noile materii pe... | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-18 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!247 | adservio/helm2 | lower web HPA cpu utilization target from 100% to 80% | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-18 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1820 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7617] SelectOrganizationsTree UI improvements, Director dashboard updates | Alex Murarescu | 2026-05-18 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1803 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7524]: Routes for Mobile | Ioana Ivan | 2026-05-18 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1810 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7164]: Taxe UI Responsive | Iuliana Gugeanu | 2026-05-18 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1818 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7225] - creare/editare manuala candidati | George Murgoci | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/admission/backend!137 | adservio/admission/backend | [ADS-7225] - creare/editare manuala candidati | George Murgoci | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!27 | adservio/devops/iac | add readonly performance insgihts for monitoring role | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-18 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1825 | adservio/frontend | admission permissions/fees fixes | George Murgoci | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/audit!11 | adservio/audit | [date-hotfix] Date hotfix | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/audit!12 | adservio/audit | [audit-log-headers] logged headers | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-18 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1823 | adservio/frontend | Remove default start date on payment obligations | Achim Stefan | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1824 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-2126] Notifications/Tooltips display wrong professor | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1821 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7530] Login improvements | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1814 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7480] [Financiar] Numele bancii si cont IBAN | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/docgen2/backend!121 | adservio/docgen2/backend | [ADS-7480] [Financiar] Numele bancii si cont IBAN | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/billing/backend!246 | adservio/billing/backend | [ADS-7480] [Financiar] Numele bancii si cont IBAN | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/devops/iac!26 | adservio/devops/iac | Enforce per-database isolation for Postgres app users on staging | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-19 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1815 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-5949] Local processor | Edgar Alexa | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1829 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-6329] Modificare denumire ”Învoire concursuri” | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-19 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!141 | adservio/admission/backend | removed dead applciationf ees code | George Murgoci | 2026-05-19 | ||
| adservio/web!2498 | adservio/web | [ADS-7447][ADS-7611][ADS-7489][ADS-7117] log errors | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-05-19 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/web!2495 | adservio/web | [ADS-4569] count student absences per class | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-05-19 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!1836 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-6802] - Userii cu permisiune de manager ar trebui sa poata adauga procente la o disciplina | Achim Stefan | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!250 | adservio/helm2 | add cloudwatch as datasoure for grafan to fetch db metrics | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-20 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!28 | adservio/devops/iac | add grafana cloudwatch IRSA role and policy for production | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/devops/iac!29 | adservio/devops/iac | add aws-apn-id default tag + stabilize bastion/CSI lifecycle | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1800 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7222]: Studenti - teste automate fix | Dana Mihaela Maritca | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1835 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7523] - fixed default orderring on caniddates table | George Murgoci | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1832 | adservio/frontend | Admission bugfixes | George Murgoci | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!143 | adservio/admission/backend | [ADS-7459] added email/phone first/last name to applications | George Murgoci | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1831 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7459] added email/phone first/last name to applications | George Murgoci | 2026-05-20 | Yes | |
| adservio/devops/iac!30 | adservio/devops/iac | upgrade database and disable multi-az | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-20 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1840 | adservio/frontend | Fix contest exemption E2E copy drift | Valentin Pal | 2026-05-20 | ||
| adservio/helm2!249 | adservio/helm2 | raise web maxReplicas from 20 to 25 in production | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-21 | ||
| adservio/web!2502 | adservio/web | [HOTFIX] School config - import & sync perm | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-05-21 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1843 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-7545]: Mesaj de alerta la dezactivarea disciplinei optionale modificat la 3 secunde | Iuliana Gugeanu | 2026-05-21 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1844 | adservio/frontend | imports permissions fix | Achim Stefan | 2026-05-21 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2501 | adservio/web | [ADS-7550][ADS-4876][ADS-4929] Update foaie matricola | Marian Andrei | 2026-05-21 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!31 | adservio/devops/iac | prod RDS: catalog2 downgrade + tune only the firing alarms | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-05-21 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1845 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-5289] Questionnaires - selector persoane | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-22 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1847 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-4235] Se face un request pentru wellbeing cand nu este cazul | Petronel Pavel | 2026-05-22 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1850 | adservio/frontend | imports permissions fix | Achim Stefan | 2026-05-22 | Yes | |
| adservio/uni/backend!198 | adservio/uni/backend | [ADS-7569] Sincronizare alocare grupa student | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-05-22 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1849 | adservio/frontend | Fix Cypress exemption label import | Marian Andrei | 2026-05-24 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1848 | adservio/frontend | Fix Cypress exemption label import | Marian Andrei | 2026-05-24 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1841 | adservio/frontend | Refactor Cypress configuration and cleanup | Daniel Onisoru | 2026-05-24 |
Oldest Active Open MRs (> 48 Working Hours)
| adservio/web!2091 | adservio/web | Andrei Dragan | 221.5d | 5 | |
| adservio/helm2!137 | adservio/helm2 | Raul Popovici | 197.6d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/websocket!8 | adservio/services/websocket | Raul Popovici | 194.5d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/videothumb!5 | adservio/services/videothumb | Raul Popovici | 194.5d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/fet-generator!9 | adservio/services/fet-generator | Raul Popovici | 194.5d | 0 | |
| adservio/ai/backend!62 | adservio/ai/backend | Robert | 95.6d | 0 | |
| adservio/frontend!1556 | adservio/frontend | George Murgoci | 86.3d | 0 | |
| adservio/web!2344 | adservio/web | George Murgoci | 85.4d | 0 | |
| adservio/library/backend!26 | adservio/library/backend | Raul Popovici | 65.4d | 0 | |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!103 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 63.4d | 4 |
Longest Merged Cycles
| adservio/uni/backend!172 | adservio/uni/backend | Andrei Alexandru | 34.5d | 32 | 0 |
| adservio/billing/backend!242 | adservio/billing/backend | Edgar Alexa | 20.0d | 17 | 2 |
| adservio/frontend!1766 | adservio/frontend | Achim Stefan | 10.0d | 48 | 5 |
| adservio/frontend!1800 | adservio/frontend | Dana Mihaela Maritca | 6.2d | 1 | 0 |
| adservio/admission/backend!137 | adservio/admission/backend | George Murgoci | 6.1d | 61 | 0 |
| adservio/devops/iac!26 | adservio/devops/iac | Rojan Shrestha | 3.9d | 8 | 0 |
| adservio/frontend!1803 | adservio/frontend | Ioana Ivan | 3.1d | 15 | 0 |
| adservio/web!2495 | adservio/web | Ionut Ciolan | 2.4d | 6 | 0 |
| adservio/frontend!1827 | adservio/frontend | Petronel Pavel | 2.1d | 8 | 1 |
| adservio/web!2493 | adservio/web | Ionut Ciolan | 47.6h | 2 | 0 |
Methodology And Limits
- This report uses visible non-author GitLab comments as the strongest review-start proxy.
- GitLab approval API coverage is shown separately; missing approval API data should be read as traceability gap, not proof that no approval happened.
- Review completion uses the first `CR - Approved` label-add event after review starts when GitLab label history provides one; otherwise it falls back to merge time.
- Last-author-commit metrics use the latest non-merge MR commit authored by the MR author strictly before review starts.
- Timing metrics in this report exclude Saturday and Sunday hours using the Europe/Bucharest calendar.
- Review-quality scoring is heuristic: it rewards visible substantive comments, multiple reviewers, and post-review pushes, and it penalizes large MRs with shallow visible discussion.
- `Active open backlog rate` excludes draft MRs and uses a > 48 working-hour age threshold.
- Open MR backlog age is a queue-health signal, not proof that every old open MR is actively waiting for review right now.