Public PR review timing snapshot for better-auth/better-auth

[xpinc17]

Hi Better Auth maintainers,

I put together a small read-only analysis of recent public PR review timing for better-auth/better-auth. This uses only public GitHub data, with no app install and nothing posted back to the repository.

The short version: most PRs appear to move very quickly, but at this volume there is still a small aging tail that may be worth a look.

For PRs created between 2026-03-10 and 2026-06-08:

• 963 PRs were analyzed
• 19 PRs waited more than 48h for a first review
• 30 approved PRs remained unmerged for more than 48h after their last approval
• Median first-review wait was 0h
• Cumulative observed first-review wait was about 109.3 PR-days

So this does not look like a broad review-speed problem. It looks more like a high-throughput queue where most PRs move fast, while a few aging review items can still slip out of view.

A few longest observed first-review waits from the window:

• #8948 — 37.3 days
• #8685 — 13 days
• #9587 — 10.9 days

One retrospective estimate from the same window: surfacing aging review items earlier would have flagged about 59% of the observable review-wait time, or roughly 64.5 cumulative PR-days. This is an estimate from public data, not a guarantee.

Method caveats:

• This is a historical, read-only estimate from public GitHub data.
• It may not reflect internal reviewer load, branch protection, prioritization, or project policy.
• Aggregate first-review wait may use merge/close time as a fallback when no first-review timestamp is visible.
• The longest-wait examples only include PRs with observed first-review timestamps.

I’m building ApprovalOps, a tool for surfacing aging review items earlier. I’m sharing this because the snapshot seemed potentially useful for a high-volume project like Better Auth, and I’d be happy to share the methodology or run another read-only window if useful.