Collecting and presenting statistics on the various aspects of the openSUSE:Factory/openSUSE:Leap:* staging process would be useful for determining if changes in tooling and automation have an impact on the workflow. Some examples or information of interest are as follows.

request

• time to first staging
• number of times moved
• total time until accepted
• time less review waits (ie staging work)
• count of superseded requests before accept

staging

• time from first request to accept (length open)
• time from acceptable to accepted (idle time)
• spacing between requests being added (ignoring superseded requests)
• manual rebuilds triggered that ended in success (flaky packages)
• manual retests triggered that ended in success (flaky tests)

overall

• backlog size
• empty staging count
• ready stagings pending review
• ignored requests
• total open requests

drawing some conclusions where possible

• the quality of initial staging decisions based on number of times requests are moved
• troublesome packages that general cause issues and may be candidates for isolating
• dead time where requests are in backlog and empty stagings
• would adjusting the number of stagings be useful

If possible back-filling this data would be helpful for getting a feel for averages.