GitHubGitHub open pull requests in the MacBook notch
Open pull requests are work waiting on a review, which makes this the clearest single measure of whether a project is blocked on its maintainers.
What is counted
Pull requests in the open state, through the search API with
is:pr is:open. Drafts are included: a draft is open and it is work in
progress, and excluding it would understate what is actually in flight.
Closed and merged pull requests are not counted, whichever way they ended.
Reading it next to open issues
The two GitHub backlog numbers say different things. Open issues are work nobody has started. Open pull requests are work somebody has finished and nobody has looked at. A project where issues are flat and pull requests climb has a review bottleneck, and that is the one that loses contributors.
The widget asks which repository to count, so a maintainer with four repositories places four widgets and sees which one is holding people up.
What GitHub open pull requests means, exactly
Pull requests currently open.
A whole number.
How the widget behaves
- Buckets
- hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
- Shape
- A figure, with no sparkline
- Against last period
- No
- Fetched from
- api.github.com
What the widget asks you for
- Repository
- Which repository this tile counts.
- owner/name
Questions
- How is GitHub open pull requests calculated?
- Pull requests currently open. Notch Metrics reports that number, unchanged, in the MacBook notch.
- Can I see GitHub open pull requests over time?
- GitHub open pull requests is a snapshot of right now, so the widget shows the figure without a sparkline. The windows it accepts are 24 hours, 7, 30 and 90 days, and 12 months.
- What unit is GitHub open pull requests in?
- A whole number.
- What does it cost to put GitHub open pull requests in the notch?
- $9 a month, or $49 a year, with every connector included and no per-integration charge. The seven-day trial needs no card, so you can see your own open pull requests before deciding.