Happy to provide more datapoints. It's sooooooo easy with AI nowadays - here are your weekly stats for last year.
┌────────────────────┬──────┬───────────────────────┬────────────────────┬──────┬──────────────────┐ │ Week │ Open │ │ Week │ Open │ │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-09-29 → 11-24 │ 0 │ (no PRs yet) │ 2026-03-23 │ 10 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +4 −0 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-12-01 │ 1 │ ▇ +1 │ 2026-03-30 │ 10 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-12-08 │ 1 │ ▇ +1 −1 │ 2026-04-06 │ 10 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-12-15 │ 0 │ −1 │ 2026-04-13 │ 9 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-12-22 │ 1 │ ▇ +2 −1 │ 2026-04-20 │ 8 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2025-12-29 │ 2 │ ▇▇ +1 │ 2026-04-27 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-01-05 │ 3 │ ▇▇▇ +1 │ 2026-05-04 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-01-12 │ 2 │ ▇▇ −1 │ 2026-05-11 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +4 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-01-19 │ 4 │ ▇▇▇▇ +2 │ 2026-05-18 │ 8 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +3 −2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-01-26 │ 4 │ ▇▇▇▇ +3 −3 │ 2026-05-25 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-02-02 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +4 −1 │ 2026-06-01 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-02-09 │ 8 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +3 −2 │ 2026-06-08 │ 4 │ ▇▇▇▇ +1 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-02-16 │ 8 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +5 −5 │ 2026-06-15 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +5 −2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-02-23 │ 10 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 │ 2026-06-22 │ 9 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +3 −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-03-02 │ 15 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +7 −2 │ 2026-06-29 │ 10 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +4 −3 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-03-09 │ 13 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +3 −5 │ 2026-07-06 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ +1 −5 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ 2026-03-16 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ +4 −11 │ 2026-07-13 → 07-20 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-07-27 │ 3 │ ▇▇▇ +1 −4 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-08-03 → 08-10 │ 5 │ ▇▇▇▇▇ │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-08-17 │ 4 │ ▇▇▇▇ −2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-08-24 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-08-31 │ 7 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +2 −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-09-07 │ 9 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ +3 −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-09-14 │ 8 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ −1 │ ├────────────────────┼──────┼───────────────────────┼────────────────────┼──────┼──────────────────┤ │ │ │ │ 2026-09-21 │ 6 │ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ −2 │ └────────────────────┴──────┴───────────────────────┴────────────────────┴──────┴──────────────────┘ Summary: first PR 2025-11-27, so the whole history is 43 weeks. 90 PRs authored, 81 merged, 3 closed, 6 open now. Weekly average 6.4 open, peak 15 (week of 2026-03-02), and the queue drained hard the following fortnight (−11 in the week of 03-16, the largest single-week clearance). On Mon, Sep 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM Sameer Mesiah <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jarek, > > Thank you for pulling up the statistics. It really helps us understand the > situation better. But I think these point-in-time numbers can sometimes > mask the natural deviations in activity for most contributors. Since you > took me as an example of someone who would hardly be affected by this new > policy, I think we need to look at the maximum number of PRs I had open > over my history of contributing. My memory is not 100% accurate of course > but I recall having 15-20 open PRs at one point. And right around the time > of the summit, I am fairly sure I had 10 open PRs (some in draft though I > am not sure if this policy applies to draft PRs) which then went down to 6 > as the maintainers returned to start reviewing and merging my PRs again. I > do not fault the maintainers of course as I understand the review queue is > going to deprioritised during that period due to intense summit > preparations. > > I would say I’m opening fewer PRs nowadays (unfortunately other > commitments just get in the way even when you really want to contribute as > a volunteer). So the 6 open PRs statistic might have caught me in a low > point. > > I do not wish to make this thread about myself but I suspect other > contributors’ activity might have similar patterns. Periods where they have > lots of open PRs and then periods where they only have a handful. You can > clearly see this in the statistics of people in bucket A who you seem to > categorize as ‘good’ contributors. > > If you are insistent on this policy, I think a 10 PR limit might be a more > reasonable middle ground. It will prevent bots and bad faith contributors > from spamming 50 PRs but it won’t be excessively restrictive. > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2026 at 20:23, Jarek Potiuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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] > > > > > > > > >
