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ALL-REVI0001 · review_coverage

Measure independently reviewed changes on protected development lines.

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Divide changes whose merge path requires review and that carry an approval from an eligible reviewer other than the author by all changes whose merge path requires review.

Findings retain change identity, author, reviewers, ownership, approval, and merge path. The value is the percentage of in-scope changes approved by an eligible reviewer other than the author.

Emergency changes may follow a documented retrospective review path. Mechanical bot changes may use separate verification policy.

Ninety-five independently reviewed changes among one hundred produce 95. Self-approval does not satisfy independent review.

  • Cites “Software Engineering at Google”, Code Review
  • Cites “OpenSSF Scorecard”, branch protection checks