apache/beam
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
In plain words
Outside PRs: 8 in 10 merged. First reply usually within 24 h. 1 starter issue is available now.
Outside PRs merged
85%
384 merged, 70 closed, 56 still open
Higher than 54% of 559 other measured repositories
First human reply
24 h
median of 510 outside PRs, 68 unanswered
Time to merge
5.7 days
384 of 510 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
Take this free issue
Cannot write "google.protobuf.Timestamp" (NanosInstant) to BigQuery through schemas
Open issue #20523 - 3
Know where to ask
Questions go to the project's slack, or on the issue itself. Not in private messages.
Open it - 4
Sign the contributor agreement
A bot will ask you to sign a contributor licence agreement on your first pull request. It takes a minute.
- 5
Open a small pull request
Link the issue in it. A first reply here usually takes 24 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 outsiders510100%
- Got a human reply44287%
- Merged38475%
Time to first reply
After 2 days, 57% of outside PRs had a reply from a person. After a week, 68%. Bots do not count.
The last 52 weeks
Steady. Median first reply was 20 h over the last four weeks (217 PRs) and 24 h over the four before (159 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
- 1
- Claimed
- 17
- Has a pull request
- 18
- Stale
- 59
- Has a pull request[Task]: Go SDK portable logical type support#39684
- Has a pull request[Feature Request]: Creation of BigQuery clone table via BigQueryIO#38310
- Claimed[Feature Request]: Expose pvalue.Row in core.py rather than pvalue.py#35095
When replies arrive
All maintainers counted together. Shown only when at least 3 people replied in the last 90 days, so it never describes one person.
Replies are most likely between 17:00 and 20:00 (India time).
Show as table
| Hour (India time) | Replies, all weekdays |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 30 |
| 01:00 | 29 |
| 02:00 | 22 |
| 03:00 | 9 |
| 04:00 | 4 |
| 05:00 | 6 |
| 06:00 | 12 |
| 07:00 | 16 |
| 08:00 | 10 |
| 09:00 | 3 |
| 10:00 | 5 |
| 11:00 | 6 |
| 12:00 | 5 |
| 13:00 | 5 |
| 14:00 | 4 |
| 15:00 | 8 |
| 16:00 | 56 |
| 17:00 | 79 |
| 18:00 | 56 |
| 19:00 | 58 |
| 20:00 | 63 |
| 21:00 | 62 |
| 22:00 | 42 |
| 23:00 | 29 |
How to start
- Contributing guidefound
- Code of conductfound
- Issue templatesfound
- Dev container for one-step setupnot found
- A contributor licence agreement must be signed before a pull request is merged.
Where the project talks
Activity
- Commits, 90 days
- 858
- Releases, 12 months
- 9
- Active maintainers
- 19
- Last push
- 11 Oct 2026
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