When evaluating whether to contribute to raspberrypi/rpi-imager, 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 raspberrypi/rpi-imager acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 2 days+. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 66.0% were successfully merged into the primary branch.