Silent pull requests: asking went with more answers, a plain comment with noneYour pull request has had no answer for two weeks. Should you say something? Porchlamp followed 95,078 first pull requests across open source. Of those still open and silent at two weeks, 28% got an a1d ago · 2 min readporchlamp.hashnode.dev
Which language's open source projects answer a stranger fastest?The typical Go project takes 18.9 hours to answer a stranger's pull request. Dolt, also written in Go, takes 24 minutes. That gap is why I stopped asking which language answers fastest. There is an an3d ago · 2 min readporchlamp.hashnode.dev
How long until someone answers your pull request?You fix a bug in a library you use, open a pull request, and wait. I wanted to know how long that wait really is, so I followed 1.4 million pull requests to 11,000 GitHub projects. It depends on the pOct 24 · 4 min readporchlamp.hashnode.dev
Python projects are twice as likely as Java ones to leave most outside pull requests unansweredYou fix a bug in a project you use every day and send a pull request. Two weeks later, nobody has replied. Some projects do that to most of the outsiders who write to them. Among the Python projects IOct 23 · 4 min readporchlamp.hashnode.dev
Where a first pull request is most likely to get an answerYou have a free evening and a small fix in mind. Whether it lands depends less on your code than on a plainer question: will anyone read it? That question is the whole idea behind the first-timer viewOct 15 · 2 min readporchlamp.hashnode.dev