Good luck with that, they cant even send out the emails consistently. One minute their to the author email next minute they're to support email. Getting them to do anything actually to help developers is like pulling teeth.

Lets hope they do something but I won't hold my breath

Agreed. Metrics would be great so that we know when to start up the stream so it’s ready for review.

THIS!!!

This!!!! Please do this. I have been in line for a few days now and have no idea when the review will be.
I am possibly going to jump out of line just to add more people to the beta testing list because its faster than waiting for a review, which will just make the wait worse.

This can be basically categorized into a few groups:
fast reviews
full reviews
deep reviews

for fast reviews this can be code that has already been seen and doesnt need to be fully verified, just the new functionality, which should take less time

for full reviews a general guess of say 1 hour for review or something should be put for each one of those in line

for long reviews, these can be things that take upwards of say a day to review.

With those 3 classes of review process, I would assume you could automate a checkin system to see the amount of diffs, and based on that give a rough estimate.

Thank you!