The Ultimate Guide to Contributing to Open Source Projects
GitHub added 36 million new developers in 2025, roughly one new account every second, pushing the platform past 180 million developers total. Nearly a billion commits got pushed over the year, up 25% from the year before, and 43.2 million pull requests (PRs) were merged every month. Open source has never been bigger or more accessible.
- ▪GitHub added 36 million new developers in 2025, roughly one new account every second, pushing the platform past 180 million developers total.
- ▪Nearly a billion commits got pushed over the year, up 25% from the year before, and 43.2 million pull requests (PRs) were merged every month.
- ▪Open source has never been bigger or more accessible.
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| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:00:17 +0000 |
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GitHub added 36 million new developers in 2025, roughly one new account every second, pushing the platform past 180 million developers total. Nearly a billion commits got pushed over the year, up 25% from the year before, and 43.2 million pull requests (PRs) were merged every month. Open source has never been bigger or more accessible. It's also never been under more strain. GitHub's own Octoverse report names a widening "contributor-to-maintainer gap," made worse by what the industry has started calling "AI slop": low-quality, auto-generated pull requests that consume maintainer time without adding real value.
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