When evaluating whether to contribute to RustCrypto/AEADs, response velocity and maintainer engagement are crucial. GetMerged continuously tracks pull request trajectories, first-comment latency, and code review rounds to help developers avoid submitting pull requests to backlogged repositories.
Currently, maintainers of RustCrypto/AEADs acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 21 days+. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 88.6% were successfully merged into the primary branch.