“The continuous availability of code reviewers is also not guaranteed all the time, so we need to only migrate parts of the codebase where we have bandwidth to land the changes.”

— Stoyan Nikolov et al., Google · VI. Joda time to Java time migration

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From “How is Google using AI for internal code migrations?”, found 2026-10-14.

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Reviewer capacity used as a scheduling input. Work is split into chunks that can be reviewed separately, sharded by owner, and aimed at the parts of the codebase whose reviewers have time.