When evaluating whether to contribute to freebsd/freebsd-src, 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 freebsd/freebsd-src acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 7 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 11.8% were successfully merged into the primary branch.