Correction: Thursday the 24th at 7:00pm CEST. - which is 72 hrs from the beginning of that thread,
And one more comment: I thought for a long time about the metrics "Threads vs. PRs". For me this is **embodiment** of community-aware, empathic contributor - on the way to become a commmiter. And I **knew** - because I checked it before - that practically **all** committers have a very high number here. I deliberately never mentioned it in our discussions. As we all know, anything you set as a goal stops being a useful metric. There are always ways to game the system. That's why I waited for quite a while to accumulate the data and showed completely different numbers - and never discussed the thread vs. PRs idea - to ensure this particular metric remained totally unbiased. And - just for the record - this is the last time this metric will be unbiased—now that we will publicly say we "care" about it. And here is Claude's analysis on those top-20. And my thinking is that we should care about the needs of groups in this way: A > B > C. ------------ Three buckets, all 24 (top-19 + the five-way tie at 6 open PRs) Bucket rule, stated up front so the borderline calls are visible: engagement = others' threads per open PR (≥1.5 counts as engaged), quality = all-time merge rate (≥40% healthy). I picked these thresholds to match where the data actually clusters - there's a real gap between 1.7 and 0.8 on engagement, and between 40% and 31% on the merge rate. --- A. Net reviewers — they give back more than they ask for (9 people, 103 open PRs) ┌─────────────────┬──────┬─────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ Author │ Open │ Threads/open PR │ Reviews │ Merge % │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ SameerMesiah97 │ 6 │ 60.3 │ 350 │ 90% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ shivaam │ 6 │ 13.0 │ 55 │ 67% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ Vamsi-klu │ 10 │ 10.8 │ 58 │ 38% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ Andrushika │ 9 │ 4.6 │ 33 │ 79% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ yuseok89 │ 12 │ 3.8 │ 49 │ 77% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ steveahnahn │ 14 │ 3.2 │ 40 │ 59% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ ColtenOuO │ 23 │ 2.6 │ 70 │ 59% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ stephen-bracken │ 6 │ 2.3 │ 16 │ 56% │ ├─────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ fat-catTW │ 17 │ 1.7 │ 33 │ 50% │ └─────────────────┴──────┴─────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ Vamsi-klu is the odd one: 108 threads and 58 reviews (bucket-A engagement) on a 38% merge rate. Placed here because the review effort is unambiguous. fat-catTW and stephen-bracken are the borderline entries - drop the threshold to 2.0 and fat-catTW moves out. B. Shippers, not reviewers - volume with normal merge rates (6 people, 115 open PRs) ┌───────────────┬──────┬─────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ Author │ Open │ Threads/open PR │ Reviews │ Merge % │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ Eason09053360 │ 35 │ 0.3 │ 13 │ 52% │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ 1fanwang │ 34 │ 0.8 │ 36 │ 40% │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ rjgoyln │ 27 │ 0.7 │ 34 │ 53% │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ Samin061 │ 7 │ 0.4 │ 4 │ 58% │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ jeff3071 │ 6 │ 0.3 │ 7 │ 46% │ ├───────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ YAshhh29 │ 6 │ 0.2 │ 1 │ 45% │ └───────────────┴──────┴─────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ The work lands—merge rates here are ordinary, some above committer-adjacent levels—but the top three are carrying 96 open PRs between them while having commented on 56 of other people's threads in total. 1fanwang sits exactly on the 40% line. C. Low engagement and low merge rate (9 people, 82 open PRs) ┌───────────────────┬──────┬─────────────────┬─────────┬─────────┐ │ Author │ Open │ Threads/open PR │ Reviews │ Merge % │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ bujjibabukatta │ 16 │ 0.2 │ 5 │ 11% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ anmolxlight │ 12 │ 0.4 │ 12 │ 31% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ dheerenmohta │ 10 │ 0.2 │ 0 │ 28% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ namanjain24-sudo │ 8 │ 1.1 │ 1 │ 11% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ Kunal8954 │ 8 │ 0.8 │ 6 │ 20% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ bramhanandlingala │ 8 │ 0.0 │ 1 │ 22% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ zozo123 │ 7 │ 0.1 │ 6 │ 17% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ GayathriSrividya │ 7 │ 0.0 │ 9 │ 22% │ ├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────┼─────────┼─────────┤ │ nagasrisai │ 6 │ 0.7 │ 6 │ 29% │ └───────────────────┴──────┴─────────────────┴─────────┴─────────┘ bramhanandlingala and GayathriSrividya have commented on zero threads they didn't author. This bucket is 82 open PRs with an aggregate merge rate around 21% - roughly four reviews spent per PR that eventually lands. J. On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 9:09 PM Henry Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jarek and Vincent for the detailed data and perspective that > context is really helpful. Seeing the actual numbers (especially that even > the top contributors rarely hit 5 open PRs), a cap of 5 makes sense to me > as a starting point. Happy to go with it and adjust later if we find it's > too tight in practice. > > Thanks > Henry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
