Patch Pilot report

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>>> I believe LP has at least 1 full time reviewer. (So 1-3 person-weeks per
>>> week if they do that over the full 24 hours.) (They at least have an
>>> on-call person, I don't know how much actual time is spent.)
>> We currently have 16 on-call reviewers on a daily rotation.  It's a
>> regular workday, not a 24 hour gig-- we have reviewers in various timezones:
> 
>> https://dev.launchpad.net/ReviewerSchedule
> 
>> Aaron
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> 
> I realize you don't have 1 reviewer on a 24-hour rotation. But you do
> have 3 reviewers per day according to the schedule

Well, we average 3.2, but it varies from 2-4.

> I also don't know how much time they spend reviewing versus doing work,
> and versus other people doing reviews.

That varies a lot, but doing reviews is our first priority, and we're
not supposed to take on regular coding on that day.

> How many active developers does LP have? If you have 16 reviewers, maybe
> 30-40 devs?

Yes, ~35

> So that is 30:3 or 10:1 of review time versus dev time. Or
> ~10% overhead. And if you only spend half the time, then it is 5% overhead.

Well, from my POV, it's 20% overhead, because it's one day out of five
where I'm not supposed to hack on Launchpad.

Aaron
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