GitLab Merge Requests Efficiency
This panel offers a view of efficiency solving (merging or closing) merge requests based on three metrics:
- REI: Review Efficiency Index, defined as the number of solved (merged or closed) merge requests divided by the number of open ones in a given period of time. Measures efficiency solving merge requests.
- Lead Time: the time expressed in days between the initiation and completion of a production process, in this case, a merge request. Shown in average in this panel.
- Time to Merge: time from merge request creation to the moment in which it’s solved.
Filtering by Organization and Project is allowed by using the top left corner widget.
REI is shown next to filtering widget. Moving average is set to 8 weeks to identify changes in trends. Average is also shown as reference. REI values greater than 1 means the community is solving more merge requests than those they are opening. Values smaller than 1 means the opposite, i.e., more merge requests open than those solved during a given time frame.
Median Time to Merge gauge is set to show green color for less than 7 days, yellow for values from 7 to 30 days and red from 30 to 90 days. This means we are considering a week as a good time to solve. This is just a visual reference and you can always rely on the number, ignoring this color scheme.
Next to this gauge, Lead Time shows the average Time to Merge expressed in days together to its trend. This helps to identify peaks and visualize the global evolution of time spent in solving merge requests.
Finally, a table on the right splits Median Time to Solve by repository, giving an insight on the differences among them.
Files
To use this dashboard with your own GrimoireLab deployment you need to:
- Check
gitlab_merge_requestsindex is available on your GrimoireLab instance (see grimoirelab-sirmordred documentation for details on how to deploy it). - Import the following JSON files using Kidash tool.
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Command line instructions
Once you have the data in place, if you need to manually upload the dashboard execute the following commands:
kidash -e https://user:pass@localhost:443/data --import gitlab_merge_requests-index-pattern.json
kidash -e https://user:pass@localhost:443/data --import gitlab_merge_requests_efficiency.json
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