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| title: "PR Coding Time" |
| description: > |
| PR Coding Time |
| sidebar_position: 15 |
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| ## What is this metric? |
| The time it takes from the first commit until a PR is issued. |
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| ## Why is it important? |
| It is recommended that you keep every task on a workable and manageable scale for a reasonably short amount of coding time. The average coding time of most engineering teams is around 3-4 days. |
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| ## Which dashboard(s) does it exist in? |
| - [Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time](/livedemo/EngineeringLeads/EngineeringThroughputAndCycleTime) |
| - [Engineering Throughput and Cycle Time - Team View](/livedemo/EngineeringLeads/EngineeringThroughputAndCycleTimeTeamView) |
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| ## How is it calculated? |
| <b>Data Sources Required</b> |
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| This metric relies on PRs/MRs collected from GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, Gitee or other code review tools. |
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| <b>Data Transformation Required</b> |
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| N/A |
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| <b>SQL Queries</b> |
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| The following SQL shows how to find the `coding time` of a specific PR. DevLake pre-calculates the metric and stores it in table.project_pr_metrics. |
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| ``` |
| SELECT |
| pr_coding_time/60 as 'PR Coding Time(h)' |
| FROM |
| project_pr_metrics |
| ``` |
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| If you want to measure the monthly trend of `PR coding time` in the screenshot below, please run the following SQL in Grafana. |
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|  |
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| ``` |
| SELECT |
| DATE_ADD(date(pr.created_date), INTERVAL -DAY(date(pr.created_date))+1 DAY) as time, |
| avg(ppm.pr_coding_time)/60 as 'PR Coding Time(h)' |
| FROM |
| pull_requests pr |
| JOIN project_pr_metrics ppm ON pr.id = ppm.id |
| GROUP BY 1 |
| ORDER BY 1 |
| ``` |
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| ## How to improve? |
| Divide coding tasks into workable and manageable pieces. |