<!--IssueSummary start--> <details> <summary> Everyone can contribute. [Help move this issue forward](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/developer-relations/contributor-success/community-contributors-workflows/#contributor-links) while earning points, leveling up and collecting rewards. </summary> - [Close this issue](https://contributors.gitlab.com/manage-issue?action=close&projectId=278964&issueIid=26878) </details> <!--IssueSummary end--> ### Problem to solve Currently, we don't have a reliable way to optimally distribute the workload between all reviewers and maintainers across all teams' MRs during the release. Often, a particular reviewer is overloaded with MRs to check, burning them out and from another hand making him a bottleneck. ### Target audience GitLab team and contributors ### Further details When an MR is ready, it's authors usually looks for the reviewer or maintainer [at the projects page](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/projects/) of the handbook. But it does not tell anything about the current reviewer's workload. A reviewer, when assigned, starts looking someone less burdened and re-assign to another reviewer, and this goes on. ### Proposal 1. Create a the publicly visible single source of truth telling how many MRs are currently being reviewed by a particular reviewer or maintainer 1. This SSOT should be either editable by reviewers (maintainers) or automatically react to the current state of things at GitLab.com 1. Set a limit of MRs allowed for simultenous review by a single reviewer ### What does success look like, and how can we measure that? Decrease of the time spent by MRs in Review state according to [GitLab CE](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/cycle_analytics) and [GitLab EE](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/cycle_analytics) Cycle Analytics at GitLab.com ### Links / references Automatic display of current workload of reviewers could be made possible after adoption of [multiple assignees per MR](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/2004).