petetnt

Someone mentioned in a previous HN thread related to the topic this week that OpenClaw had absolute staggering amount of issues and pull requests open.

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pulls

I have been following the repo this week and it seems that the situation has only accelerated. In the beginning of the week the repo was getting around 25 PRs per hour, now the rate is closer to 100 per hour.

I haven't pulled accurate statistics, but quick look and napkin math shows that this is hundreds of thousands lines of code sent to review every day. With the struggling GitHub tooling you can see that so far in the past 7 days 4663 PRs were opened, and 653 of those were merged, generating around quarter a million added lines. This month (1.-6.3.) the project has consumed 765031 build minutes, 531 days worth of compute. And like mentioned, this is only accelerating daily.

What do you think about this future of open source software development?

Looking at the https://www.githubstatus.com/history there's been a significant issue in GitHub 13 out of 22 days this year. These track issues that warrant their own status page, but from personal experience there's some sort of degraded performance to be seen in the service almost daily, most often in the evening in my local time.

As a long time paying GitHub user the stability has been bad for years now, but this has been an upwards trend that's only been accelerated in the recent times. What's happening inside of GitHub and can we expect it to ever get better anymore?