When evaluating whether to contribute to civicrm/civicrm-core, 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 civicrm/civicrm-core acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 20 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 82.3% were successfully merged into the primary branch.