Ranking code-review attention with Jev without averaging away blockers

Goal

Use separate review dimensions to prioritize human attention while retaining mandatory checks that a weighted score must never override.

Prerequisites

Prepare a bounded change description, the relevant diff, review criteria, and deterministic blocker rules. Define the result as review prioritization, not permission to merge or a probability of software correctness.

Steps

1. Choose distinct dimensions such as clarity of the behavior change, relevance of test evidence, and breadth of affected interfaces. Write descriptive levels that reviewers can apply to the same change.

2. Ask separate Score questions and retain the individual answers. The documented composite-scoring pattern combines dimensions in code; this proposed application uses that pattern for an attention queue.

3. Apply mandatory checks separately. Missing authorization, an unresolved failing check, or an unsupported deployment target must remain visible even if other dimensions look strong.

4. Compute the queue ranking using a versioned weighting rule. Show the component scores and evidence gaps beside the ranking so reviewers can challenge the basis instead of treating a single number as authority.

5. Evaluate ordering on historical or synthetic review packets with independently assigned priorities. Inspect which important changes would be pushed down the queue and how ties or missing evidence are handled.

Expected result

The review queue exposes why a change deserves attention and what remains unchecked. Updating priorities can change the weighting rule without hiding the underlying judgments or bypassing required checks.

Limits and test basis

No benefit over ordinary review triage is claimed. Ordinal rubric levels do not automatically justify arbitrary arithmetic, and model judgments may share correlated errors. Validate any scoring interpretation before relying on it operationally. The underlying interface or pattern is described in Composite scoring; the workflow above is a proposed adaptation.