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How Many Workdays of Code Review Are Waiting?

Convert open review demand into a clearance horizon at the team's current throughput.

pull requests
pull requests per day

Queue clearance time

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Inputs modeled

2

10% more first input

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Processing

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How the calculation works

Observed inputsYour own periodTransparent formulaEditable assumptionsDecision outputQueue clearance timeCompare like-for-like periods before acting on the result.

How to Use This Tool

Convert open review demand into a clearance horizon at the team's current throughput. Developers feel review delay as blocked work, while managers often see only a count with no estimate of how long the queue represents.

Why Review Queue Wait needs more than a raw total

Queue divided by current throughput provides a simple clearance horizon and exposes when review capacity is below arrival demand. For this page, the useful comparison is queue clearance time, not whichever input happens to be largest. The Review Queue Wait result answers the decision in the heading and should not be reused as a score for a different workflow.

Entered Pull requests awaiting reviewSame input plus 10%compare
Review Queue Wait changes pull requests awaiting review alone for the secondary result, leaving every other entered value fixed.

The exact Review Queue Wait formula

Queue clearance days equal pull requests awaiting review divided by reviews completed per workday. The visible fields are Pull requests awaiting review and Reviews completed per workday. For Review Queue Wait, read each printed unit before entry and make the values describe one transaction, cohort or reporting window. If those scopes differ, the displayed queue clearance time may be arithmetically valid but operationally meaningless.

Interpreting queue clearance time

Protect reviewer time, prioritize blocking and high-risk changes, and compare daily arrivals with completions before promising a clearance date. The ten-percent comparison is deliberately narrow: it tests the influence of pull requests awaiting review and is neither a forecast nor a confidence interval. Preserve the values used, their dates and the resulting decision so a later reviewer can reproduce why Review Queue Wait supported the choice.

What this Review Queue Wait model leaves out

This is a queue-clearance estimate, not an individual PR SLA; it excludes new arrivals, review complexity, revisions and reviewer specialization. That is where Review Queue Wait stops being trustworthy. If an excluded factor could reverse queue clearance time, extend the model explicitly or use the authoritative account system instead of hiding the factor inside an unexplained adjustment.

Evidence and independent verification

The reference reviewed for Review Queue Wait is GitHub Docs — About pull request reviews. GitHub Docs — About pull request reviews supports the named definition or rule but does not supply private values for queue clearance time. Before acting on the result, reconcile the worked example with the relevant dashboard, invoice, export or measurement.

Private, reproducible calculation

Review Queue Wait runs its arithmetic in the current browser tab and requests no login or API key. That keeps the Review Queue Wait inputs away from the site's calculation server, while leaving the user responsible for detecting stale data or a changed platform rule. When an assumption changes, reopen GitHub Docs — About pull request reviews and rerun the saved Review Queue Wait scenario.

Sources & assumptions

Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-22. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.

Official references

Model assumptions

  • Every input covers the same reporting period or cohort.
  • This is a queue-clearance estimate, not an individual PR SLA; it excludes new arrivals, review complexity, revisions and reviewer specialization.
  • The calculator uses only the visible fields and does not fetch account data.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly does Review Queue Wait return?
Review Queue Wait returns queue clearance time from the displayed formula: Queue clearance days equal pull requests awaiting review divided by reviews completed per workday. No hidden account field participates in this result.
Which input should I verify first for Review Queue Wait?
Start Review Queue Wait with Pull requests awaiting review. Developers feel review delay as blocked work, while managers often see only a count with no estimate of how long the queue represents. Confirm the remaining Review Queue Wait fields use the same scope and reporting window.
What does the Pull requests awaiting review sensitivity result mean?
It raises pull requests awaiting review by ten percent while holding the other fields fixed. Protect reviewer time, prioritize blocking and high-risk changes, and compare daily arrivals with completions before promising a clearance date. It is not a probability or forecast.
When should I reject the Review Queue Wait result?
Reject or extend the model when this limitation matters: This is a queue-clearance estimate, not an individual PR SLA; it excludes new arrivals, review complexity, revisions and reviewer specialization.
Which evidence was reviewed for Review Queue Wait?
Review Queue Wait cites GitHub Docs — About pull request reviews for the current definition; use your own source system for the account-specific values behind queue clearance time.
Where does Review Queue Wait process my inputs?
The calculation for queue clearance time runs in browser JavaScript and requests no account credential or calculation API.

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