A count of 24 months of merged pull requests puts one merger above 78 percent on four OpenTelemetry SDKs

Sources: matduggan.com post, HN discussion
Summary: The author counted merged pull requests across 24 months of OpenTelemetry repositories and found that on four of the language SDKs a single person merged more than 78 percent of them. He states that the data contradicted the hypothesis he started with, because the slow review times on semantic-conventions pull requests do not propagate into SDK pull request times, so vendor disagreement over semantic conventions does not explain the SDK numbers. The analysis is one contributor's own count and no independent reproduction was located.
Why it matters: The author's own data contradicts his starting hypothesis, because the slowest semantic-conventions pull requests do not propagate into SDK pull request times, which moves the explanation from vendor debate to maintainer headcount against a binary stability gate.