Who is actually merging.

How this board was built

1. 01 · The pool

   We asked GitHub for pull requests merged since 2025-01-01 in 17 languages, sorted by recent activity, and counted the authors. The 220 most-merged authors in that sample became the pool.

2. 02 · The numbers

   For each author we ran three author-scoped searches - merged, open, and reviewed-by - and took GitHub's total_count. Those are exact all-time figures, not estimates and not our own tally.

3. 03 · The bots

   15 of the 220 accounts are automation: a handle ending in [bot], a handle ending in bot, or a GitHub App avatar. They are held back by default because 48.2M of their merges would otherwise outrank every person on the list.

4. 04 · The limit

   This is a ranking of the people we read, not of GitHub. Someone who merges a lot in languages we did not sample, or whose work landed before 2025 and stopped showing up in the recent feed, is simply not here.

A merge count measures activity, not quality, and it is not a score of who contributes most to the software you use. Use it to find people whose review you might want, not to settle an argument.