Hotfix Resolution Time

Hotfix Resolution Time is the average time taken to recover from a failure in production.

On Hivel, it is measured as the average cycle time of a Pull Request (PR) labeled as a hotfix. In other words, the time taken for a hotfix PR from the first commit to when it is merged to the release branch.

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