Pull Request Club is a web app matching open source contributors with maintainers. This happens through monthly assignments: Maintainers’ repos are assigned to contributors. The assignment is to submit at least one pull request.

I started the Pull Request Club as a successor to CPAN Pull Request Challenge in January 2019. See previous yearly reports below:

• 2019
• 2020
• 2021-2023

This post will cover the year of 2024.

New Things

• Nothing new was implemented during 2024.

Numbers

I have changed the metrics I analyze. Last year I focused on “New” data (“New” users, “New” repos etc.) This year instead of “new contributors”, I’ve looked at “yearly active contributors”.

Contributors

We saw the numbers go down. 2024 was actually the worst year: there were only six users who submitted pull requests.

Maintainers

Numbers haven’t changed much over the years. We have 15 users getting PRs.

Assignments

Both numbers are at their lowest. Total PRs have reached 300.

Overall, we see the numbers are going down. I want to spend more time on PRC but 2024 was not a good year to do it.

Presentations

E. Choroba let me know on Mastodon that he presented a lightning talk about PRC in Helsinki. He shared the slides here and the video is below. I am very thankful to him: He’s both an active contributor and maintainer. Thanks for spreading the word, Choroba!

Join us!

Are you looking to contribute to open source more this year?

Are you looking for patches for your open source libraries?

You can join us at PullRequest.Club today.