ArduPilot/MethodicConfigurator
A clear ArduPilot configuration sequence
In plain words
Outside PRs: 8 in 10 merged. First reply usually within 8 h. Replies slowed down this month.
Outside PRs merged
80%
33 merged, 8 closed, 3 still open
Higher than 44% of 565 other measured repositories
First human reply
8 h
median of 44 outside PRs, 2 unanswered
Time to merge
3.3 days
33 of 44 outside PRs merged
Outside PRs opened 30 to 120 days ago, so each has had time to be answered. A figure needs at least 5 pull requests, otherwise it reads "Not enough data". How this is calculated · A number looks wrong?
Your first steps here
If you have never contributed to this project, do these in order.
- 1
Read the contributing guide
It says how to set the project up and what the maintainers expect in a pull request.
Open the guide - 2
Find something small
No first issue is free right now. Look for a typo, a missing test or an unclear error message, or ask where help is wanted.
Browse open issues - 3
Know where to ask
Questions go to the project's forum, or on the issue itself. Not in private messages.
Open it - 4
Sign off your commits
Commit with git commit -s. Without the sign-off line the checks fail.
- 5
Open a small pull request
Link the issue in it. A first reply here usually takes 8 h; until then, silence is normal.
What happens to an outside pull request
Every pull request opened by someone outside the core team, 30 to 120 days ago.
- Opened by outsiders44100%
- Got a human reply4295%
- Merged3375%
Time to first reply
After 2 days, 86% of outside PRs had a reply from a person. After a week, 95%. Bots do not count.
The last 52 weeks
Slowed down. Median first reply was 5.4 days over the last four weeks (5 PRs) and 17 h over the four before (15 PRs).
Starter issues
Issues labelled for beginners, with their real state. Available means open, unassigned, no linked pull request, nobody has claimed it in the last 14 days, and it was updated in the last 60 days.
- Available
- 0
- Claimed
- 0
- Has a pull request
- 1
- Stale
- 0
- Has a pull requestPython 3.15 support#1753
Issue replies: first human reply in 8.2 days (median of 18 issues).
How to start
- Contributing guidefound
- Code of conductfound
- Issue templatesfound
- Dev container for one-step setupnot found
- Commits must be signed off (DCO): use git commit -s.
Where the project talks
Activity
- Commits, 90 days
- 468
- Releases, 12 months
- 30
- Active maintainers
- 1
- Last push
- 11 Oct 2026
Stack
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