openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server
Open Food Facts database, API server and web interface - 🐪🦋 Perl, CSS and JS coders welcome 😊 For helping in Python, see Robotoff or taxonomy-editor
In plain words
Outside PRs: 9 in 10 merged. First reply usually within 16 h. 9 starter issues are available now.
Outside PRs merged
93%
226 merged, 18 closed, 39 still open
Higher than 76% of 565 other measured repositories
First human reply
16 h
median of 283 outside PRs, 22 unanswered
Time to merge
48 h
226 of 283 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
Move all images to the deleted folder when product is deleted without deleting individual images first
Open issue #9794 - 3
Know where to ask
Questions go to the project's slack, or on the issue itself. Not in private messages.
Open it - 4
Open a small pull request
Link the issue in it. A first reply here usually takes 16 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 outsiders283100%
- Got a human reply26192%
- Merged22680%
Time to first reply
After 2 days, 71% of outside PRs had a reply from a person. After a week, 86%. Bots do not count.
The last 52 weeks
Steady. Median first reply was 18 h over the last four weeks (128 PRs) and 15 h over the four before (111 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
- 9
- Claimed
- 3
- Has a pull request
- 0
- Stale
- 20
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 13:00 and 16:00 (India time).
Show as table
| Hour (India time) | Replies, all weekdays |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | 19 |
| 01:00 | 29 |
| 02:00 | 32 |
| 03:00 | 16 |
| 04:00 | 5 |
| 05:00 | 2 |
| 06:00 | 1 |
| 07:00 | 0 |
| 08:00 | 0 |
| 09:00 | 1 |
| 10:00 | 3 |
| 11:00 | 6 |
| 12:00 | 23 |
| 13:00 | 61 |
| 14:00 | 92 |
| 15:00 | 86 |
| 16:00 | 57 |
| 17:00 | 57 |
| 18:00 | 69 |
| 19:00 | 53 |
| 20:00 | 54 |
| 21:00 | 70 |
| 22:00 | 45 |
| 23:00 | 19 |
How to start
- Contributing guidefound
- Code of conductnot found
- Issue templatesfound
- Dev container for one-step setupfound
- No CLA or sign-off requirement was found.
Where the project talks
Activity
- Commits, 90 days
- 615
- Releases, 12 months
- 30
- Active maintainers
- 17
- Last push
- 10 Oct 2026
Stack
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