When evaluating whether to contribute to docker/mcp-gateway, 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 docker/mcp-gateway acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 2 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 38.5% were successfully merged into the primary branch.