Bitcoin Core — GitHub Statistics Report Generated 2026-03-03 16:54 · ~12 months of activity

1. Overview

Total workflow runs	11,092
Total pull requests	2,015
Total issues (excluding PRs)	449
Total commits	3,492
Data range (PRs)	2025-03-03 to 2026-03-03
Unique PR authors	367
Unique commit authors	123

2. Pull Request Activity

PRs merged	1,097
PRs closed without merge	641
PRs currently open	277
Merge rate (merged / all closed)	63.1%
Draft PRs	168
Median time to merge (days)	5.1
Mean time to merge (days)	22.1
90th percentile time to merge (days)	62.9
Fastest merge (hours)	0.0
Median time to close without merge (days)	0.4

3. Pull Request Authors

Top 20 PR Authors

#	Author	PRs
1	maflcko	222
2	fanquake	196
3	hebasto	155
4	l0rinc	96
5	Sjors	54
6	achow101	50
7	theStack	39
8	willcl-ark	38
9	w0xlt	33
10	ryanofsky	30
11	vasild	27
12	fjahr	26
13	brunoerg	26
14	sipa	26
15	glozow	24
16	sedited	23
17	rkrux	23
18	instagibbs	22
19	davidgumberg	21
20	ismaelsadeeq	21

Top 10 Authors by Merged PRs

#	Author	Merged
1	maflcko	184
2	fanquake	170
3	hebasto	105
4	l0rinc	54
5	achow101	34
6	Sjors	32
7	theStack	32
8	willcl-ark	25
9	glozow	22
10	instagibbs	21

Avg new PR authors per month	30.6
Avg unique PR authors per month	61.6

4. Pull Request Timing Patterns

Weekend vs weekday PR ratio	16.1% of weekday volume
Peak hour for PR creation (UTC)	15:00

5. Issues

Total issues (non-PR)	449
Open issues	85
Closed issues	364
Median time to close (days)	1.1
Mean time to close (days)	24.1

Top 20 Issue Labels

#	Label	Count
1	Tests	50
2	Build system	46
3	CI failed	44
4	Wallet	40
5	Feature	29
6	RPC/REST/ZMQ	21
7	Upstream	20
8	Windows	19
9	Questions and Help	19
10	GUI	18
11	Tracking Issue	14
12	Docs	13
13	Brainstorming	13
14	P2P	13
15	Bug	12
16	macOS	10
17	interfaces	8
18	Data corruption	5
19	Resource usage	5
20	Validation	4

Top 15 Issue Reporters

#	Author	Issues
1	fanquake	86
2	maflcko	37
3	hebasto	20
4	Sjors	13
5	l0rinc	10
6	dergoegge	9
7	plebhash	5
8	yancyribbens	4
9	achow101	4
10	ismaelsadeeq	4
11	polespinasa	3
12	pinheadmz	3
13	janb84	3
14	ghost	3
15	1440000bytes	3

6. Commits

Total commits	3,492
Avg commits per month	268.6
Median commit message length (chars)	58
Avg unique commit authors per month	34.5
Bus factor (authors for 50% of commits)	4

Top 15 Commit Authors

#	Author	Commits
1	fanquake	788
2	achow101	337
3	hebasto	287
4	glozow	184
5	l0rinc	141
6	ryanofsky	104
7	sipa	100
8	Sjors	80
9	sedited	78
10	theStack	56
11	willcl-ark	55
12	hodlinator	50
13	davidgumberg	43
14	instagibbs	39
15	mzumsande	37

Top 10 Committers (merge/push)

#	Committer	Commits
1	fanquake	798
2	achow101	338
3	hebasto	292
4	glozow	187
5	l0rinc	139
6	sipa	105
7	ryanofsky	103
8	Sjors	79
9	sedited	79
10	willcl-ark	56

7. CI / Workflow Runs

Total workflow runs	11,092
success	7,224 (65.1%)
cancelled	2,480 (22.4%)
failure	1,376 (12.4%)
startup_failure	11 (0.1%)
action_required	1 (0.0%)
CI success rate (success / success+failure)	84.0%
Runs with retries (attempt > 1)	1,073
Median CI run duration (minutes, success only)	72.3
90th percentile CI duration (minutes)	113.2

Runs by Event Type

Event	Count
pull_request	9,845
push	1,245
dynamic	2

Runs by Workflow Name

Workflow	Count
CI	11,080
.github/workflows/ci.yml	9
Copilot code review	2
Silent Merge Conflict Check	1

Top 15 CI Actors

#	Actor	Runs
1	fanquake	1,377
2	maflcko	809
3	achow101	728
4	l0rinc	687
5	hebasto	610
6	ryanofsky	464
7	Sjors	412
8	sipa	390
9	glozow	268
10	sedited	254
11	vasild	237
12	andrewtoth	221
13	furszy	204
14	ismaelsadeeq	189
15	fjahr	181

8. Cross-Cutting Analysis

Avg monthly activity (PRs + issues + commits)	458
Total unique contributors (all types)	532
Contributors active in all 3 areas	41

Activity Heatmap: Day of Week vs Hour (PRs + Commits)

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
Mon	7	5	4	3	3	12	14	8	24	53	59	57	61	56	52	80	72	56	39	43	58	57	22	23
Tue	23	11	8	7	9	4	9	28	45	52	66	59	49	102	77	72	78	78	43	65	58	70	41	46
Wed	19	15	11	8	5	9	12	29	57	69	67	47	54	52	75	85	61	58	48	63	57	59	54	30
Thu	19	21	11	10	7	12	8	28	32	73	80	76	67	56	82	52	49	64	69	55	36	56	40	26
Fri	30	10	9	8	2	10	16	20	36	43	49	56	50	86	72	88	54	27	33	34	30	43	50	23
Sat	16	13	7	4	6	10	11	16	21	16	19	27	19	14	12	14	25	7	19	21	17	8	12	13
Sun	7	3	1	5	5	1	1	2	5	15	5	12	14	15	13	16	20	15	21	12	10	16	15	11