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We did an async retrospective and feedback session with the GitLab team members and the wider community in order to find an answer on how we can\n[improve the time it takes before a review is made](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/issues/13718) for\ncontributions that were ready for a review. We’re still processing that feedback, but are looking to try some of these\nsuggestions, learn from them, and iterate. Even though GitLab cannot promise timely reviews, we can certainly try to\nbuild in mechanisms, and understand where we see limits, to navigate towards better processes. When we started out, we\nhad a median time of 17 days that an MR was in the ready for review state. Today that median time has been reduced to five days!\n\nThe median Open Community MR Age (OCMA) has also dropped from 139 days in April to 78 days in August. Maybe it is a\ncoincidence that we reached an all-time high of 126 contributors in August? 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