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: 54 of 61 merged MRs (88.5%) showed no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- `CR - Approved` is currently too weak as evidence on its own: 26.2% of merged MRs carried that label without any visible review discussion.
- Queue health is poor: 78.8% of active open MRs are already older than 48 working hours. The oldest example is adservio/web!2091 at 297.0d open.
- Visible review capacity is thin and concentrated: only 7 visible review touches were detected in the whole window, and the top 3 reviewers handled 85.7% of them.
- adservio/web is the highest-volume review surface with 16 merged MRs and only 6.2% visible review coverage. adservio/frontend is the next meaningful flow at 16 merges and 31.2% visible review coverage.
- MR size is not the main story: median changed files were 3, and only 13.1% of merged MRs were above 20 files. Even the slowest merged example, adservio/frontend!1873, took 67.8d with 3 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 2.4h, so the dominant weakness is decision recording and merge discipline, not reviewer reaction speed.
- With 78.8% of active MRs already stale, the open list is functioning more like inventory than prioritization support. adservio/web!2091 being open for 297.0d 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 85.7% of visible touches, review quality, continuity, and queue health all become sensitive to a very small set of people.
- The spread between a 3-file median MR and a 67.8d longest merged cycle (adservio/frontend!1873, 3 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/helm2 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 Ioana 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/helm2: 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
- 54 of 61 merged MRs (88.5%) had no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- 22 of 61 merged MRs (36.1%) carried the `CR - Approved` label.
- 16 merged MRs (26.2%) were labeled `CR - Approved` without any visible non-author review comment.
- 13.1% of merged MRs changed more than 20 files, while 11.5% changed more than 50 files.
- Among MRs with visible review discussion, the median last-author-commit to first-review time was 2.4h.
- The median last-author-commit to `CR - Approved` time was 22.9h.
- The top 3 reviewers accounted for 85.7% of visible review touches.
- 52 of 66 active open MRs (78.8%) were older than 48 working hours.
Merged MRs Merged MRs inside the analysis window. | 61 |
Open MRs All currently open group MRs. | 83 |
Active open MRs Open MRs excluding drafts. | 66 |
Draft open MRs Open MRs marked draft/WIP. | 17 |
Visible review rate Merged MRs with at least one visible non-author GitLab comment. | 11.5% |
Merged without visible review comment Merged MRs with zero visible non-author comments. | 88.5% |
CR - Approved label coverage Merged MRs carrying the CR-approved label. | 36.1% |
Approval API coverage Merged MRs with at least one approver in the GitLab approvals API. | 24.6% |
CR - Approved without visible review comment CR-approved MRs with no visible non-author comment. | 26.2% |
Median MR created -> first review Working time from MR creation to first visible non-author comment. | 11.0d |
Median last author commit -> first review Working time from last author commit before review to first visible non-author comment. | 2.4h |
Median first review -> CR - Approved Working time from first visible comment to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 3.7h |
Median MR created -> CR - Approved Working time from MR creation to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 11.1d |
Median last author commit -> CR - Approved Working time from last author commit before review to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 22.9h |
Median MR created -> merged Working time from MR creation to merge. | 24.2h |
Median changed files Median GitLab `changes_count` value. | 3 |
MRs > 5 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 5. | 34.4% |
MRs > 10 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 10. | 21.3% |
MRs > 20 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 20. | 13.1% |
MRs > 50 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 50. | 11.5% |
Top 3 reviewer touch share Share of visible review touches handled by the top 3 reviewers. | 85.7% |
Active open backlog rate Non-draft open MRs older than 48 working hours. | 78.8% |
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 | 11.0d |
| Median last author commit -> first review | 2.4h |
| Median MR created -> CR - Approved | 11.1d |
| Median first review -> CR - Approved | 3.7h |
| Median last author commit -> CR - Approved | 22.9h |
| Median MR created -> merged | 24.2h |
Reviewer Distribution
| Ioana Ivan | 3 | 12 | 42.9% |
| Dragoș Ivan | 2 | 4 | 28.6% |
| Alex Murarescu | 1 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Catalin Cojan | 1 | 10 | 14.3% |
Repo Breakdown
| adservio/frontend | 16 | 31.2% | 62.5% | 7.0 |
| adservio/web | 16 | 6.2% | 31.2% | 2.0 |
| adservio/helm2 | 10 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1.5 |
| adservio/devops/iac | 4 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 4.0 |
| adservio/billing/backend | 3 | 0.0% | 33.3% | 1 |
| adservio/docgen2/backend | 3 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 3 |
| adservio/uni/backend | 3 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6 |
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend | 2 | 50.0% | 50.0% | 3.5 |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend | 2 | 0.0% | 50.0% | 11.5 |
| adservio/accommodations/backend | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 |
| adservio/services/notifications | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 4 |
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/frontend!2066 | [ADS-8067] [ADS-8400] Refactor încadrare | 4/5 Strong | 14.9d | 0.5h | 16.1d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Petronel Pavel Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 6 Quality Notes 6 visible comments; 3 substantive comments; single reviewer; 10 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 3 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 10 MR Created 2026-08-12 12:40 Last Author Commit 2026-09-02 10:50 First Review 2026-09-02 11:22 CR Approved 2026-09-03 15:15 Merged 2026-09-03 15:15 First Review -> CR Approved 27.9h Last Commit -> CR Approved 28.4h Created -> Merged 16.1d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!2102 | [ADS-8601] School config for AI Summaries | 2/5 Light | 1.0h | 1.1h | 1.2h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Alex Murarescu Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 2 Quality Notes 2 visible comments; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 0 MR Created 2026-09-01 09:39 Last Author Commit 2026-09-01 09:32 First Review 2026-09-01 10:41 CR Approved 2026-09-01 10:49 Merged 2026-09-04 11:45 First Review -> CR Approved 0.1h Last Commit -> CR Approved 1.3h Created -> Merged 3.1d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!2104 | [ADS-8595] Validare register elevi/parinti | 4/5 Strong | 3.0d | 2.3h | 3.0d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Petronel Pavel Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 4 Quality Notes 4 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 2026-09-01 11:59 Last Author Commit 2026-09-04 09:41 First Review 2026-09-04 11:58 CR Approved 2026-09-04 12:22 Merged 2026-09-04 12:28 First Review -> CR Approved 0.4h Last Commit -> CR Approved 2.7h Created -> Merged 3.0d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!2055 | [S-7816][ADS-8199] SIIIR | 1/5 Very light | 17.9d | 2.4h | 18.1d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Marian Andrei Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; comments look lightweight; single reviewer; large MR (106 files) with little visible depth Substantive Comments 0 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 0 MR Created 2026-08-06 13:30 Last Author Commit 2026-09-01 09:07 First Review 2026-09-01 11:30 CR Approved n/a Merged 2026-09-01 15:13 First Review -> CR Approved 3.7h Last Commit -> CR Approved 6.1h Created -> Merged 18.1d | ||||||
| adservio/web!2651 | [ADS-8067]: Incadrare (Allocation) — migrare Laravel | 4/5 Strong | 32.2d | 3.3h | 33.3d | |
Repo adservio/web Author Andrei Dragan Reviewers Catalin Cojan Review Comments 10 Quality Notes 10 visible comments; 9 substantive comments; single reviewer; 4 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 9 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 4 MR Created 2026-07-20 08:28 Last Author Commit 2026-09-02 10:46 First Review 2026-09-02 14:03 CR Approved 2026-09-03 15:19 Merged 2026-09-03 15:19 First Review -> CR Approved 25.3h Last Commit -> CR Approved 28.6h Created -> Merged 33.3d | ||||||
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend!16 | added charts implementation | 4/5 Strong | 16.4h | 16.4h | 22.9h | |
Repo adservio/services/backend-for-frontend Author Stefan Musat Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 3 Quality Notes 3 visible comments; 2 substantive comments; single reviewer; 2 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 2 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 2 MR Created 2026-09-03 17:09 Last Author Commit 2026-09-03 17:06 First Review 2026-09-04 09:31 CR Approved 2026-09-04 16:00 Merged 2026-09-04 16:00 First Review -> CR Approved 6.5h Last Commit -> CR Approved 22.9h Created -> Merged 22.9h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!2078 | [ADS-7251] Mutarea subscriptii de pe recurenta An scolar pe recurenta an calendaristic | 3/5 Solid | 11.0d | 23.7h | 11.1d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Edgar Alexa Reviewers Alex Murarescu 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 2026-08-14 12:45 Last Author Commit 2026-08-28 13:51 First Review 2026-08-31 13:33 CR Approved 2026-08-31 14:12 Merged 2026-09-01 11:38 First Review -> CR Approved 0.6h Last Commit -> CR Approved 24.4h Created -> Merged 12.0d | ||||||
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 MRs54
With CR Label16
With Approval API13
- 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 (54 MRs). Click again to collapse.
| adservio/docgen2/backend!160 | adservio/docgen2/backend | [S - ADS-8176][State de functii] - Functionalitati si flux | Achim Stefan | 2026-08-31 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!2084 | adservio/frontend | [S - ADS-8176][State de functii] - Functionalitati si flux | Achim Stefan | 2026-08-31 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/frontend!2099 | adservio/frontend | [UNI-CORE] change path from /api/v2/uni-core to /api/v2/uni/core for uni-core | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-08-31 | ||
| adservio/uni/backend!245 | adservio/uni/backend | [ADS-8176] State de funcții | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-08-31 | Yes | |
| adservio/uni/backend!248 | adservio/uni/backend | [UNI-CORE] Path from /api/v2/uni-core to /api/v2/uni/core for uni-core | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-08-31 | ||
| adservio/helm2!366 | adservio/helm2 | [ADS-8176] State de funcții | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-08-31 | ||
| adservio/helm2!365 | adservio/helm2 | [UNI-CORE] Route from /api/v2/uni-core to /api/v2/uni/core for uni-core | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-08-31 | ||
| adservio/helm2!368 | adservio/helm2 | ads-8589 restrict staging public NLB to cloudflare ip ranges | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/devops/iac!77 | adservio/devops/iac | declare the developer access entry username and add the developers group | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/web!2728 | adservio/web | [Hotfix]: Update access code handling in Utilizatori controller | Andrei Dragan | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1873 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-5007] Early Bird - REVERT | Edgar Alexa | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!123 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | [ADS-7251] Mutarea subscriptii de pe recurenta An scolar pe recurenta an calendaristic | Edgar Alexa | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/billing/backend!276 | adservio/billing/backend | [ADS-7251] Mutarea subscriptii de pe recurenta An scolar pe recurenta an calendaristic | Edgar Alexa | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!116 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | [ADS-5007] Early Bird - REVERT | Edgar Alexa | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/billing/backend!273 | adservio/billing/backend | [ADS-5654]- tuition fees fastify-to-nest-migration | George Murgoci | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/helm2!344 | adservio/helm2 | [S: ADS-7816] Worker SIIIR & RMQ | Marian Andrei | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/services/notifications!18 | adservio/services/notifications | [S ADS-7816][ADS-8489] SIIIR - web notification | Marian Andrei | 2026-09-01 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/web!2726 | adservio/web | [S-8176][ADS-8454] School config - state of functions | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/web!2644 | adservio/web | [S: ADS-7816][ADS-8196][ADS-8200][ADS-8197][ADS-8198][ADS-8201] SIIIR | Marian Andrei | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!2103 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8616] Load all class parents for account status | Valentin Pal | 2026-09-01 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/helm2!371 | adservio/helm2 | ADS-8630: give notifications-sync-events-worker a heap ceiling that fits its container | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!79 | adservio/devops/iac | ADS-8628: enable RDS enhanced monitoring and tune MySQL timeouts | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!372 | adservio/helm2 | ADS-8627: disable DeploymentZeroAvailableReplicas in production | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/helm2!373 | adservio/helm2 | ADS-8631: stop grouped critical alerts failing to reach pagerduty | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-01 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!78 | adservio/devops/iac | ads-8609 retune production rds alarms and page critical ones to pagerduty | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/devops/iac!80 | adservio/devops/iac | ADS-8628: set table_definition_cache on mysql-catalog2 and mysql-catalog3 | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/helm2!367 | adservio/helm2 | ADS-8607: scope Traefik latency alerts to protocol=http | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2100 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8600] Restore required diploma fields | Valentin Pal | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/docgen2/backend!166 | adservio/docgen2/backend | [ADS-8637] Eroare la descarea situatiei scolare a sudentului | Achim Stefan | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2734 | adservio/web | Hotfix siiir | Marian Andrei | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/web!2731 | adservio/web | [ADS-8594]: Allow to filter by classID parents endpoint | Ioana Ivan | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2735 | adservio/web | [HOTFIX] Workers - DB Ping | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/web!2736 | adservio/web | [ADS-8619]: Allow elObservatii on students details for docgen2 | Ioana Ivan | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2733 | adservio/web | [Hotfix]: Enhance transaction handling and event publishing | Andrei Dragan | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/accommodations/backend!79 | adservio/accommodations/backend | [HOTFIX] Non didactic period - new dorm | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/web!2723 | adservio/web | Align account-status tests with batch contract | Valentin Pal | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2707 | adservio/web | Make role cleanup ownership-safe after setup failure | Valentin Pal | 2026-09-02 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2722 | adservio/web | Align classbook archive polling with async job budget | Valentin Pal | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/billing/backend!279 | adservio/billing/backend | [bucharest-codes-export] Updated to siruta city codes for bucharest | Edgar Alexa | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/web!2737 | adservio/web | [ADS-8636] Sync students parents job | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-09-02 | ||
| adservio/web!2740 | adservio/web | [HOTFIX] db ping | Ionut Ciolan | 2026-09-03 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2111 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8604] In catalogul studentului nu afiseaza informatiile din sectiunea Ani studiu | Achim Stefan | 2026-09-03 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/docgen2/backend!168 | adservio/docgen2/backend | [ADS-8649] State de functii, design feedback + improvements | Achim Stefan | 2026-09-03 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!2113 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8657]: SIIIR fixes for missing astID | Ioana Ivan | 2026-09-03 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2110 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8649] State de functii, design feedback + improvements | Achim Stefan | 2026-09-03 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!380 | adservio/helm2 | ads-7610 right-size social-api and uni php-fpm-laravel memory requests | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-04 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2115 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8067-hotfix] Old interface încadrare back | Petronel Pavel | 2026-09-04 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2116 | adservio/frontend | Preload social i18n to avoid double loader on dashboard | Alex Murarescu | 2026-09-04 | ||
| adservio/web!2727 | adservio/web | [ADS-8601] School config for AI Summaries | Alex Murarescu | 2026-09-04 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2729 | adservio/web | [ADS-8595] Validare register elevi/parinti | Petronel Pavel | 2026-09-04 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/uni/backend!250 | adservio/uni/backend | [ADS-8574] Import Note: preia mentiuni nota: Restanţă, Refacere, Lipsă... | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-09-04 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!2117 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8658] Repoint authentication at IAM | Daniel Onisoru | 2026-09-04 | Yes | |
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend!17 | adservio/services/backend-for-frontend | fix: add width and height to SVG to prevent flutter_svg crash | Stefan Musat | 2026-09-04 | ||
| adservio/helm2!379 | adservio/helm2 | restrict production public NLB to cloudflare ip ranges | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-09-04 |
Oldest Active Open MRs (> 48 Working Hours)
| adservio/web!2091 | adservio/web | Andrei Dragan | 297.0d | 5 | |
| adservio/helm2!137 | adservio/helm2 | Raul Popovici | 273.1d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/websocket!8 | adservio/services/websocket | Raul Popovici | 270.0d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/videothumb!5 | adservio/services/videothumb | Raul Popovici | 270.0d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/fet-generator!9 | adservio/services/fet-generator | Raul Popovici | 270.0d | 0 | |
| adservio/frontend!1556 | adservio/frontend | George Murgoci | 161.8d | 0 | |
| adservio/web!2344 | adservio/web | George Murgoci | 160.9d | 0 | |
| adservio/library/backend!26 | adservio/library/backend | Raul Popovici | 140.9d | 0 | |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!103 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 138.9d | 4 | |
| adservio/admission/backend!104 | adservio/admission/backend | Edgar Alexa | 138.8d | 0 |
Longest Merged Cycles
| adservio/frontend!1873 | adservio/frontend | Edgar Alexa | 67.8d | 3 | 0 |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!116 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 67.8d | 4 | 0 |
| adservio/web!2644 | adservio/web | Marian Andrei | 34.9d | 111 | 0 |
| adservio/web!2651 | adservio/web | Andrei Dragan | 33.3d | 84 | 10 |
| adservio/frontend!2055 | adservio/frontend | Marian Andrei | 18.1d | 106 | 1 |
| adservio/frontend!2066 | adservio/frontend | Petronel Pavel | 16.1d | 119 | 6 |
| adservio/helm2!344 | adservio/helm2 | Marian Andrei | 12.1d | 8 | 0 |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!123 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 12.0d | 19 | 0 |
| adservio/frontend!2078 | adservio/frontend | Edgar Alexa | 12.0d | 10 | 1 |
| adservio/uni/backend!245 | adservio/uni/backend | Andrei Alexandru | 9.0d | 148 | 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.