Waiting on others

Waiting on others is the last tab on Pending. It lists your own open pull requests where it is someone else's turn: a review you asked for has not arrived. It says who has it and for how long, in working hours, longest wait first. It is information: nothing here is scored, and it is counted only on this tab.

#What you see

Each card names the people or teams who have the review, for example With sam · 6h. The clock starts at the newest request to that person; a re-request, or a Nudge, starts it again. Hours outside the workspace's working hours are not counted. When the wait is longer than the review target, the card says so: "Over the 4h review target — waiting 9 working hours".

A pull request is left out when:

• it is your turn on it (it is in My turn, or you dismissed it there);
• a person asked for changes after your last push: the next move is yours;
• only bots have been asked to review it;
• it is a draft or a dependency update.

#What you can do

Nudge

Nudge asks the same person for a review again on GitHub, as GitHub's own "Re-request review" does. GitHub notifies them. A team cannot be nudged this way.

Ask someone else

Ask someone else finds one other person to ask: someone the code owners and the repository's history suggest, who is not already asked, with the fewest reviews waiting on them. Limn names them and asks only when you confirm. It adds a reviewer; it removes nobody.

#Why it helps

A review you are waiting for is easy to forget once you move on to the next task. This tab keeps those waits in view, with the time in working hours, so a polite nudge goes out at the right moment and not three days late.