internetarchive/openlibrary
One webpage for every book ever published!
In plain words
Outside PRs: 7 in 10 merged. First reply usually within 29 h. Replies slowed down this month.
Outside PRs merged
73%
106 merged, 40 closed, 9 still open
Higher than 30% of 565 other measured repositories
First human reply
29 h
median of 155 outside PRs, 11 unanswered
Time to merge
6.7 days
106 of 155 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
No chat was found. Ask on the issue you are working on; that is where maintainers look.
- 4
Open a small pull request
Link the issue in it. A first reply here usually takes 29 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 outsiders155100%
- Got a human reply14493%
- Merged10668%
Time to first reply
After 2 days, 57% of outside PRs had a reply from a person. After a week, 74%. Bots do not count.
The last 52 weeks
Slowed down. Median first reply was 4.5 days over the last four weeks (54 PRs) and 15 h over the four before (86 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
- 13
- Stale
- 0
- Has a pull requestFix leftover dead doc references: opds-system.md and .pam (#13835)#13852
- Has a pull requestRestore the dropped sections in docs/frontend/design.md (#13835)#13848
- Has a pull requestRestore the deleted tag-system pages into docs/tags/ (#13835)
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 23:00 and 02:00 (India time).
Show as table
| Hour (India time) | Replies, all weekdays |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 53 |
| 01:00 | 51 |
| 02:00 | 42 |
| 03:00 | 44 |
| 04:00 | 46 |
| 05:00 | 37 |
| 06:00 | 24 |
| 07:00 | 17 |
| 08:00 | 21 |
| 09:00 | 23 |
| 10:00 | 19 |
| 11:00 | 19 |
| 12:00 | 17 |
| 13:00 | 14 |
| 14:00 | 14 |
| 15:00 | 12 |
| 16:00 | 10 |
| 17:00 | 10 |
| 18:00 | 6 |
| 19:00 | 6 |
| 20:00 | 11 |
| 21:00 | 24 |
| 22:00 | 38 |
| 23:00 | 44 |
How to start
- Contributing guidefound
- Code of conductfound
- Issue templatesfound
- Dev container for one-step setupnot found
- No CLA or sign-off requirement was found.
Where the project talks
No chat or mailing list link was found in the README or contributing guide.
Activity
- Commits, 90 days
- 555
- Releases, 12 months
- 30
- Active maintainers
- 19
- Last push
- 10 Oct 2026
Stack
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