Study of 212,390 outside pull requests across 11,000 GitHub projects
A developer analyzed six months of public GitHub history (April–October 2026) across 11,000 projects: 212,390 outside pull requests from 110,605 distinct authors. Of 4,297 qualifying projects, 26.4% leave outside PRs unanswered for two weeks or more.
- 212,390 outside PRs from 110,605 authors analyzed over six months
- 1,133 of 4,297 projects (26.4%) are black holes with no reply in two weeks
- Silence rises with stars: 21% at 1–10k, 39% at 50k+
- Only 9 of the 100 most-starred projects rank in the top 100 for responsiveness
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