Scope
Ecosystem
Collected
26 October 2026
Window
Definitions
1.0
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Contributors

Active contributorsPeople with at least one commit in the month.

110

+23

n=110 · established

New contributorsPeople whose first in-scope commit falls in the month.

36

+11

n=36 · established

Sustained contributorsPeople with at least 5 commits in the 365 days ending at the month boundary.

120

+36

n=120 · established

First-to-second retentionShare of people whose second commit arrived within 180 days of their first. The cohort is people whose first commit was at least 180 days ago.

43.0%

-0.3 pt

n=1199 · established

Contributor concentrationConcentration of commits among people who committed this month. 1/N means an even split. 1 means one person made every commit.

0.033

+0.009

n=110 · established

Pull requests

Pull requests openedPull requests opened in the month. Drafts are excluded.

700

+337

n=700 · established

Pull requests closedPull requests closed in the month, including merges. Drafts are excluded.

697

+350

n=697 · established

Closed by the stale botUnmerged pull requests closed by the stale-bot account, github-actions.

131

+101

n=131 · established

Closed by a committerPull requests merged, or closed without a merge by a person rather than a bot.

566

+249

n=566 · established

Open pull requestsPull requests still open at the end of the month. Drafts are excluded.

719

+370

n=719 · established

Median open ageMedian age, in days, of pull requests open at the end of the month.

36.9 days

-51.8 days

Slowest and fastest

Longest

Fastest

n=719 · established

Stale pull requestsShare of open pull requests that have been open for at least 28 days.

62.7%

-10.6 pt

n=719 · established

Median time to mergeMedian hours from open to merge for pull requests merged in the month.

44.8 hours

+19.9 hours

Slowest and fastest

Longest

Fastest

n=496 · established

Reviews

Median time to first reviewMedian hours from open to the first review by someone other than the author. Pull requests with no such review are left out of the median.

9.9 hours

+1.7 hours

Slowest and fastest

Longest

Fastest

n=613 · established

Reviewer concentrationConcentration of review submissions among reviewers this month, excluding the pull request author.

0.044

-0.022

n=78 · established

Reviews per reviewerMean review submissions per reviewer in the month.

30.6

+12.9

n=2386 · established

Mailing list

Median time to a replyMedian hours to the first reply from someone else on a dev@iceberg.apache.org thread started in the month.

4.4 hours

-3.2 hours

n=54 · established

Unanswered threadsShare of dev-list threads started in the month that had no reply from a different person by the end of the month.

45.5%

-0.3 pt

n=99 · established

Positive-tone messagesShare of classified public dev@iceberg.apache.org messages sent in the month whose lexicon score is positive. The score counts tone words in the subject and the first 2,000 characters of the message's own text, after quoted replies and the signature are removed. Messages with no plain text are left out. A rough word list, not a judgment of any person and not a health score.

73.7%

-7.0 pt

n=467 · established

Neutral-tone messagesShare of classified public dev@iceberg.apache.org messages sent in the month whose lexicon score is neutral. The score counts tone words in the subject and the first 2,000 characters of the message's own text, after quoted replies and the signature are removed. Messages with no plain text are left out. A rough word list, not a judgment of any person and not a health score.

23.8%

+5.7 pt

n=467 · established

Negative-tone messagesShare of classified public dev@iceberg.apache.org messages sent in the month whose lexicon score is negative. The score counts tone words in the subject and the first 2,000 characters of the message's own text, after quoted replies and the signature are removed. Messages with no plain text are left out. A rough word list, not a judgment of any person and not a health score.

2.6%

+1.4 pt

n=467 · established

Releases

Stable releasesStable release tags in the trailing 730 days. Release candidates, alphas, betas, snapshots, and previews are excluded. The ecosystem value is the Apache Iceberg Java release train.

13

-3

n=13 · established

Days since last stable releaseDays from the newest stable tag to the end of the month. Java tags count when the version is also listed in the ASF archive.

0.9 days

-55.3 days

n=1 · established

Exclusions

  • bot_commit: 3213
  • bot_review: 13
  • draft_pull_request: 797