# kaal:claim:3995709-004

**Claim.** Code review effectiveness is undermined by heavier review loads, because reviewers with longer review queues become overwhelmed and are more likely to submit poor quality code evaluations.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- reviewers carrying long review queues

**Source quote.**

> another study found that code reviewers with longer review queues tend to get overwhelmed and are more likely to submit poor-quality code evaluations.22 Therefore, modern code review effectiveness is undermined by heavier review loads.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards* (2021), Patch Size, page 7

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, How DAOs Optimize Open-Source Code Reviews and Create Open-Source Standards (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3995709

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `6d77dbfb15ee86080bfde0b98089180cabafeb6defdf0f05eaaeb3cb99871e89` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20How%20DAOs%20Optimize%20Open-Source%20Code%20Reviews%20and%20Create%20Open-Source%20Standards.pdf

**Failure mode.** reviewer overload from long queues  (family: supervisory-capacity-gap)

**Topics.** institutional-design

**Keywords.** reviewer-overload, review-queues, review-quality, failure-mode

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