Also sprach smaug:

How did the setup actually work?

I think farre gave a satisfactory summary of the review tool above.

I've asked this from farre too before, and IIRC, the reply was
that is wasn't working that well. Certain devs still ended up
doing majority of the reviews.  But perhaps I misremember or
certainly I don't know the details.

Shared review queues isn’t a silver bullet balancing reviews
between peers for a couple of different reasons, but it arguably
makes it easier for peers to collaborate on (and be informed of)
reviews.

For certain parts of the codebase, it is a sad fact the bus factor
is low and we shouldn’t be fooled that a system which practically
allows any one of one’s peers to pick up the review, will somehow
magically improve the turnaround time for patches in those areas.
You will still have reviews that can practically only be reviewed by
one single person who is the domain expert.

On the flipside, when you have a patch for a piece of code multiple
peers know well and feel comfortable accepting, turnaround time
could be improved compared to the status quo where the single
r?<person> could be travelling, on PTO, or otherwise preoccupied.
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