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Where a first pull request is most likely to get an answer
You 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 view
Oct 15, 20262 min read8
Six ecosystems compared on how often outside pull requests go unanswered
Send a pull request to a Python or JavaScript project you don't belong to, and it is a little more likely to meet silence than one sent to a Rust, Go or Java project. That's the short version of what
Oct 15, 20263 min read6
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Porchlamp ranks open-source projects by what happens to a pull request from someone outside the team. The articles here come from the same data behind those rankings: 11,000 projects, 212,390 outside pull requests, six months of public GitHub history. Free to read, no account needed.
How to tell if a project will answer your first pull request
You've found a project you like and an issue you could fix. Before you spend an evening on it, spend five minutes on another question: does anyone here answer strangers? It's worth the five minutes.
Oct 15, 20262 min read6