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: 46 of 56 merged MRs (82.1%) showed no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- `CR - Approved` is currently too weak as evidence on its own: 50.0% of merged MRs carried that label without any visible review discussion.
- Queue health is poor: 85.2% of active open MRs are already older than 48 working hours. The oldest example is adservio/web!2091 at 256.6d open.
- Visible review capacity is thin and concentrated: only 13 visible review touches were detected in the whole window, and the top 3 reviewers handled 92.3% of them.
- adservio/web is the highest-volume review surface with 15 merged MRs and only 0.0% visible review coverage. adservio/frontend is the next meaningful flow at 12 merges and 33.3% visible review coverage.
- MR size is not the main story: median changed files were 3.0, and only 8.9% of merged MRs were above 20 files. Even the slowest merged example, adservio/web!2610, took 9.5d with 1 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 0.7h, so the dominant weakness is decision recording and merge discipline, not reviewer reaction speed.
- With 85.2% of active MRs already stale, the open list is functioning more like inventory than prioritization support. adservio/web!2091 being open for 256.6d 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 92.3% of visible touches, review quality, continuity, and queue health all become sensitive to a very small set of people.
- The spread between a 3.0-file median MR and a 9.5d longest merged cycle (adservio/web!2610, 1 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/web 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/web: 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
- 46 of 56 merged MRs (82.1%) had no visible non-author review comment in GitLab.
- 36 of 56 merged MRs (64.3%) carried the `CR - Approved` label.
- 28 merged MRs (50.0%) were labeled `CR - Approved` without any visible non-author review comment.
- 8.9% of merged MRs changed more than 20 files, while 1.8% changed more than 50 files.
- Among MRs with visible review discussion, the median last-author-commit to first-review time was 0.7h.
- The median last-author-commit to `CR - Approved` time was 40.0h.
- The top 3 reviewers accounted for 92.3% of visible review touches.
- 46 of 54 active open MRs (85.2%) were older than 48 working hours.
Merged MRs Merged MRs inside the analysis window. | 56 |
Open MRs All currently open group MRs. | 65 |
Active open MRs Open MRs excluding drafts. | 54 |
Draft open MRs Open MRs marked draft/WIP. | 11 |
Visible review rate Merged MRs with at least one visible non-author GitLab comment. | 17.9% |
Merged without visible review comment Merged MRs with zero visible non-author comments. | 82.1% |
CR - Approved label coverage Merged MRs carrying the CR-approved label. | 64.3% |
Approval API coverage Merged MRs with at least one approver in the GitLab approvals API. | 5.4% |
CR - Approved without visible review comment CR-approved MRs with no visible non-author comment. | 50.0% |
Median MR created -> first review Working time from MR creation to first visible non-author comment. | 28.2h |
Median last author commit -> first review Working time from last author commit before review to first visible non-author comment. | 0.7h |
Median first review -> CR - Approved Working time from first visible comment to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 31.5h |
Median MR created -> CR - Approved Working time from MR creation to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 2.1d |
Median last author commit -> CR - Approved Working time from last author commit before review to CR-approved label after review start, else merge. | 40.0h |
Median MR created -> merged Working time from MR creation to merge. | 22.2h |
Median changed files Median GitLab `changes_count` value. | 3.0 |
MRs > 5 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 5. | 30.4% |
MRs > 10 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 10. | 17.9% |
MRs > 20 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 20. | 8.9% |
MRs > 50 files Merged MRs where `changes_count` is above 50. | 1.8% |
Top 3 reviewer touch share Share of visible review touches handled by the top 3 reviewers. | 92.3% |
Active open backlog rate Non-draft open MRs older than 48 working hours. | 85.2% |
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 | 28.2h |
| Median last author commit -> first review | 0.7h |
| Median MR created -> CR - Approved | 2.1d |
| Median first review -> CR - Approved | 31.5h |
| Median last author commit -> CR - Approved | 40.0h |
| Median MR created -> merged | 22.2h |
Reviewer Distribution
| Dragoș Ivan | 8 | 10 | 61.5% |
| Ioana Ivan | 3 | 19 | 23.1% |
| Daniel Onisoru | 1 | 1 | 7.7% |
| Marian Andrei | 1 | 1 | 7.7% |
Repo Breakdown
| adservio/web | 15 | 0.0% | 73.3% | 2 |
| adservio/frontend | 12 | 33.3% | 83.3% | 2.5 |
| adservio/admission/backend | 8 | 0.0% | 62.5% | 3.5 |
| adservio/helm2 | 6 | 16.7% | 0.0% | 2.5 |
| adservio/library/backend | 4 | 25.0% | 100.0% | 10.0 |
| adservio/uni/backend | 3 | 33.3% | 0.0% | 11 |
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend | 2 | 50.0% | 100.0% | 4.0 |
| adservio/billing/backend | 1 | 100.0% | 100.0% | 3 |
| adservio/devops/iac | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1 |
| adservio/docgen2/backend | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 2 |
| adservio/services/notifications | 1 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 34 |
| adservio/social | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 9 |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| adservio/helm2!296 | [image:adservio/subscriptions/backend] [ADS-7419] Subscriptions cron | 4/5 Strong | 6.0d | 0.1h | 7.7d | |
Repo adservio/helm2 Author Edgar Alexa Reviewers Dragoș Ivan, Daniel Onisoru Review Comments 2 Quality Notes 2 visible comments; 2 substantive comments; 2 reviewers; 1 post-review push Substantive Comments 2 Reviewer Count 2 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-06-29 15:31 Last Author Commit 2026-07-07 15:49 First Review 2026-07-07 15:54 CR Approved n/a Merged 2026-07-09 07:39 First Review -> CR Approved 39.8h Last Commit -> CR Approved 39.8h Created -> Merged 7.7d | ||||||
| adservio/library/backend!31 | [ADS-8119] Categories and Products search improvements | 3/5 Solid | 1.4h | 0.2h | 24.7h | |
Repo adservio/library/backend 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 2026-07-06 09:22 Last Author Commit 2026-07-06 10:37 First Review 2026-07-06 10:48 CR Approved 2026-07-07 10:04 Merged 2026-07-07 10:11 First Review -> CR Approved 23.3h Last Commit -> CR Approved 23.4h Created -> Merged 24.8h | ||||||
| adservio/uni/backend!227 | [ADS-7497]: refactor: remove unused response attributes and improve type... | 5/5 Deep | 0.6h | 0.2h | 47.6h | |
Repo adservio/uni/backend Author Andrei Dragan Reviewers Dragoș Ivan, Marian Andrei Review Comments 4 Quality Notes 4 visible comments; 4 substantive comments; 2 reviewers; 1 post-review push; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 4 Reviewer Count 2 Post-Review Pushes 1 MR Created 2026-07-07 12:23 Last Author Commit 2026-07-07 12:43 First Review 2026-07-07 12:56 CR Approved n/a Merged 2026-07-09 12:00 First Review -> CR Approved 47.1h Last Commit -> CR Approved 47.3h Created -> Merged 47.6h | ||||||
| adservio/billing/backend!258 | [ADS-7419] Subscription bugs | 2/5 Light | 28.4h | 0.4h | 2.8d | |
Repo adservio/billing/backend Author Edgar Alexa Reviewers Dragoș Ivan Review Comments 1 Quality Notes 1 visible comment; 1 substantive comment; single reviewer Substantive Comments 1 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 0 MR Created 2026-07-06 11:21 Last Author Commit 2026-07-07 15:23 First Review 2026-07-07 15:48 CR Approved 2026-07-09 07:33 Merged 2026-07-09 07:39 First Review -> CR Approved 39.7h Last Commit -> CR Approved 40.2h Created -> Merged 2.8d | ||||||
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!121 | [ADS-7419] Subscription bugs | 3/5 Solid | 6.1d | 0.5h | 7.8d | |
Repo adservio/subscriptions/backend Author Edgar Alexa 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 2026-06-29 12:52 Last Author Commit 2026-07-07 15:22 First Review 2026-07-07 15:51 CR Approved 2026-07-09 07:32 Merged 2026-07-09 07:39 First Review -> CR Approved 39.7h Last Commit -> CR Approved 40.2h Created -> Merged 7.8d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1974 | [ADS-6638] Refactor pagina de gestionare notificări | 4/5 Strong | 3.0d | 1.0h | 3.2d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Petronel Pavel Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 13 Quality Notes 13 visible comments; 12 substantive comments; single reviewer; 4 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 12 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 4 MR Created 2026-07-01 11:43 Last Author Commit 2026-07-06 09:53 First Review 2026-07-06 10:53 CR Approved 2026-07-06 16:05 Merged 2026-07-06 16:05 First Review -> CR Approved 5.2h Last Commit -> CR Approved 6.2h Created -> Merged 3.2d | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1995 | [ADS-5784] Refactor pagina de permisiuni | 5/5 Deep | 2.1d | 1.9h | 2.2d | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Petronel Pavel Reviewers Dragoș Ivan, Ioana Ivan Review Comments 5 Quality Notes 5 visible comments; 2 substantive comments; 2 reviewers; 3 post-review pushes; multi-point discussion Substantive Comments 2 Reviewer Count 2 Post-Review Pushes 3 MR Created 2026-07-08 11:25 Last Author Commit 2026-07-10 11:53 First Review 2026-07-10 13:45 CR Approved 2026-07-10 15:31 Merged 2026-07-10 15:33 First Review -> CR Approved 1.8h Last Commit -> CR Approved 3.6h Created -> Merged 2.2d | ||||||
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend!10 | feat: Add sleep, stool, and observations to newsfeed header from daycare-journal | 3/5 Solid | 2.7h | 2.7h | 23.1h | |
Repo adservio/services/backend-for-frontend Author Stefan Musat 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 2026-07-06 11:00 Last Author Commit 2026-07-06 10:59 First Review 2026-07-06 13:40 CR Approved 2026-07-07 10:06 Merged 2026-07-07 10:07 First Review -> CR Approved 20.4h Last Commit -> CR Approved 23.1h Created -> Merged 23.1h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1993 | [ADS-7419] Subscription bugs | 3/5 Solid | 3.6h | 3.8h | 43.5h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Edgar Alexa 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 2026-07-07 12:04 Last Author Commit 2026-07-07 11:52 First Review 2026-07-07 15:42 CR Approved 2026-07-09 07:35 Merged 2026-07-09 07:39 First Review -> CR Approved 39.9h Last Commit -> CR Approved 43.7h Created -> Merged 43.6h | ||||||
| adservio/frontend!1981 | [ADS-7319] [Preferinte][Admin] - Stiri | 2/5 Light | 28.0h | 45.8h | 47.2h | |
Repo adservio/frontend Author Alex Murarescu Reviewers Ioana Ivan Review Comments 2 Quality Notes 2 visible comments; 2 substantive comments; single reviewer Substantive Comments 2 Reviewer Count 1 Post-Review Pushes 0 MR Created 2026-07-02 10:24 Last Author Commit 2026-07-01 16:32 First Review 2026-07-03 14:23 CR Approved 2026-07-06 09:38 Merged 2026-07-07 15:41 First Review -> CR Approved 19.3h Last Commit -> CR Approved 2.7d Created -> Merged 3.2d | ||||||
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 MRs46
With CR Label28
With Approval API2
- 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 (46 MRs). Click again to collapse.
| adservio/frontend!1991 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8130]: Disable show toast for Add videoconference | Ioana Ivan | 2026-07-06 | ||
| adservio/uni/backend!225 | adservio/uni/backend | [ADS-7641][ADS-8150] Refactor general salvare secții | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-07-06 | ||
| adservio/uni/backend!226 | adservio/uni/backend | [ADS-8056] Script inchidere Cataloage istorice | Andrei Alexandru | 2026-07-06 | ||
| adservio/web!2630 | adservio/web | [ADS-8148][ADS-1736] Cut billing from groups | Marian Andrei | 2026-07-06 | ||
| adservio/web!2627 | adservio/web | [ADS-5722]: Add grade type visibility management for E2M | Andrei Dragan | 2026-07-06 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2626 | adservio/web | [ADS-7571]: Refactor user type validation logic in Utilizatori controller | Andrei Dragan | 2026-07-06 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!304 | adservio/helm2 | prod grafana alerting: RDS DB memory/swap signal-to-noise alerts (ADS-8016) | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-07 | ||
| adservio/web!2625 | adservio/web | [ADS-8131] - search for faculties with no offer fix | George Murgoci | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/devops/iac!57 | adservio/devops/iac | add adservio-codex-user with MonitoringUser-equivalent read-only access for... | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!171 | adservio/admission/backend | [ADS-8072] [ADS-8157]- integration tests | George Murgoci | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!172 | adservio/admission/backend | [ADS-8072][ADS-8158] - propper endpoint documentation | George Murgoci | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2629 | adservio/web | [ADS-7896] Migrare documente S3 | Catalin Cojan | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/social!35 | adservio/social | [ADS-7319] [Preferinte][Admin] - Stiri | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2621 | adservio/web | [ADS-7319] [Preferinte][Admin] - Stiri | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2628 | adservio/web | [ADS-7854] MY_Audit.php: audit hook emits non-numeric arithmetic warnings | Catalin Cojan | 2026-07-07 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!175 | adservio/admission/backend | fixed status codes | George Murgoci | 2026-07-08 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1994 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-3895]: Keep selected schools when changing page number. | Ioana Ivan | 2026-07-08 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!307 | adservio/helm2 | restrict private ingress NLBs to office egress IP on staging and prod | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-08 | ||
| adservio/helm2!306 | adservio/helm2 | traefik 5xx alert: require error volume alongside the ratio (ADS-8187) | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-08 | ||
| adservio/helm2!305 | adservio/helm2 | prod redis: stop CFS throttling on sentinel and metrics sidecars (ADS-8175) | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-08 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1996 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-3903] Ordinea incorectă a elevilor în secțiunea Teme din contul profesorului | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!1999 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-1892] Sort dropdown does not work in the responsive view | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/library/backend!34 | adservio/library/backend | Fix tests | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/helm2!308 | adservio/helm2 | ADS-8194 add PodDisruptionBudget for web | Rojan Shrestha | 2026-07-09 | ||
| adservio/admission/backend!176 | adservio/admission/backend | added missing props | George Murgoci | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!177 | adservio/admission/backend | update node version on gitlub ci | George Murgoci | 2026-07-09 | ||
| adservio/frontend!1989 | adservio/frontend | Stabilize Periods Cypress API intercept setup | Valentin Pal | 2026-07-09 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2002 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-6889] Fix get/search products after Library API changes | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/library/backend!32 | adservio/library/backend | [ADS-6889] MikroORM version bump | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/services/notifications!9 | adservio/services/notifications | Sync shared folder | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-09 | ||
| adservio/docgen2/backend!152 | adservio/docgen2/backend | [ADS-8173] Gradebook 2022 view returns HTTP 500 after downstream class lookup is forbidden | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/library/backend!35 | adservio/library/backend | [ADS-6889] Nest version bump | Alex Murarescu | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2633 | adservio/web | Stabilize holidays Cypress cleanup | Valentin Pal | 2026-07-09 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2610 | adservio/web | test: keep daycare journal specs in one shard | Valentin Pal | 2026-07-10 | ||
| adservio/web!2639 | adservio/web | [ADS-3837] Lipsa preluării implicite a naționalității la importul automat al elevilor | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2641 | adservio/web | [ADS-1695] The ppsx attachment is not loading | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/services/backend-for-frontend!12 | adservio/services/backend-for-frontend | feat(mobile/newsfeed): allow gating header sections via query flags | Stefan Musat | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2642 | adservio/web | [ADS-8154] Fix portofoliu | Marian Andrei | 2026-07-10 | ||
| adservio/web!2636 | adservio/web | [ADS-1241] Changes required for when ads_native is active | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/web!2638 | adservio/web | [ADS-2684] Search is case and diacritics sensitive | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-10 | Yes | Yes |
| adservio/web!2635 | adservio/web | [ADS-5784] Roles & permissions | Marian Andrei | 2026-07-10 | ||
| adservio/admission/backend!179 | adservio/admission/backend | [ADS-8211] - readded isMultyApply to MetadataGetResponse | George Murgoci | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/frontend!2004 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-8211] - fixed documents not showing for correct candidate | George Murgoci | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!180 | adservio/admission/backend | logs for personal info | George Murgoci | 2026-07-10 | ||
| adservio/frontend!2007 | adservio/frontend | [ADS-5784] Refactor pagina de permisiuni | Petronel Pavel | 2026-07-10 | Yes | |
| adservio/admission/backend!181 | adservio/admission/backend | joins session-documents with admission documents | George Murgoci | 2026-07-10 |
Oldest Active Open MRs (> 48 Working Hours)
| adservio/web!2091 | adservio/web | Andrei Dragan | 256.6d | 5 | |
| adservio/helm2!137 | adservio/helm2 | Raul Popovici | 232.7d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/websocket!8 | adservio/services/websocket | Raul Popovici | 229.6d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/videothumb!5 | adservio/services/videothumb | Raul Popovici | 229.6d | 0 | |
| adservio/services/fet-generator!9 | adservio/services/fet-generator | Raul Popovici | 229.6d | 0 | |
| adservio/ai/backend!62 | adservio/ai/backend | Robert | 130.7d | 0 | |
| adservio/frontend!1556 | adservio/frontend | George Murgoci | 121.4d | 0 | |
| adservio/web!2344 | adservio/web | George Murgoci | 120.5d | 0 | |
| adservio/library/backend!26 | adservio/library/backend | Raul Popovici | 100.5d | 0 | |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!103 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 98.5d | 4 |
Longest Merged Cycles
| adservio/web!2610 | adservio/web | Valentin Pal | 9.5d | 1 | 0 |
| adservio/subscriptions/backend!121 | adservio/subscriptions/backend | Edgar Alexa | 7.8d | 16 | 1 |
| adservio/helm2!296 | adservio/helm2 | Edgar Alexa | 7.7d | 8 | 2 |
| adservio/services/notifications!9 | adservio/services/notifications | Alex Murarescu | 6.1d | 34 | 0 |
| adservio/frontend!1989 | adservio/frontend | Valentin Pal | 3.4d | 1 | 0 |
| adservio/web!2621 | adservio/web | Alex Murarescu | 3.2d | 2 | 0 |
| adservio/social!35 | adservio/social | Alex Murarescu | 3.2d | 9 | 0 |
| adservio/frontend!1981 | adservio/frontend | Alex Murarescu | 3.2d | 10 | 2 |
| adservio/frontend!1974 | adservio/frontend | Petronel Pavel | 3.2d | 39 | 13 |
| adservio/billing/backend!258 | adservio/billing/backend | Edgar Alexa | 2.8d | 3 | 1 |
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.