Merge Request Rate

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Eric Johnson

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On this page

• MR Rate Performance indicators
• Definition
• Terminology
• Examples
• Projects that are part of the product
  • Managing the list of projects

MR Rate Performance indicators

• R&D Overall MR Rate
  • R&D Wider MR Rate
  • R&D Narrow MR Rate (TBD)
    • Engineering Division Narrow MR Rate
      • Development Department Narrow Rate
      • Infrastructure Department Narrow Rate
      • Quality Department Narrow Rate
      • Security Department Narrow Rate
      • Support Department Narrow Rate
      • UX Department Narrow Rate

Definition

MR Rate is a measure of productivity and efficiency. The numerator is a collection of merge requests to a set of projects. The denominator is a collection of people. Both are tracked over time (usually monthly).

Terminology

For clarity, when referring to an MR rate, you must use the format: [Identity] [Postfix] MR Rate.

• [Identity] is collection of people (the denominator) and is usually a Division, Department, Sub-Department, or Team name from our Organizational Structure
• The [postfix] defines the MRs that are counted
  • "Overall" means all the MRs to the project are counted, regardless of author
  • "Wider" means only MRs authored by non-GitLab team members are counted
  • "Narrow" means ony the MRs authored by members of the organization are counted
• The [Postfix] defines the Dividends or Numerator. The [Identity] is the Denominator or Divisor.

The reason we sometimes track the Wider rate is that MRs from our community take effort from one of our coaches to merge, and we want to incentivize that behavior.

Examples

A 5 member team in the past month has merged 200 MRs authored by team members, merged 100 MRs authored by other GitLab team members, and 50 MRs authored by people from the wider-community.

• The Team Overall MR Rate would be 70 (350 / 5)
• The Team Narrow MR Rate would be 40 (200 / 5)
• The Team Wider MR Rate would be 10 (50 / 5)

Projects that are part of the product

In the MR Rate and Volume of MR calculations, we consider MRs from projects that contributes to the overall product efforts.

The current list of projects are identified in the projects_part_of_product.csv file in the gitlab-data/analytics project.

Managing the list of projects

When asking for projects to be added please follow along the process to request new projects to be added. The VP of Development is the DRI to approve the list of projects.