A Draft Note explaining how to write explainers
active 2025-03-23 → 2026-04-29 (UTC)
Activity over time
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Line chart, 403 days from 2025-03-23 to 2026-04-29. Pushes: 10 total, peak 2 in a day. Pull requests: 11 total, peak 3 in a day. Issues: 7 total, peak 1 in a day. Comments: 55 total, peak 8 in a day. Stars: 3 total, peak 1 in a day.
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Stars, PRs, issues and forks are under-captured in the later part of this window. GH Archive progressively stopped capturing non-push events during 2026 — −95% or worse by the end of the window. Every series here except Pushes fades for that reason, so a decline above reflects the archive, not this repository. Pushes stay reliable throughout, so read them, and the contributor counts derived from them, as the real signal. Data health has the measurements.
Top contributors
Pushes, PRs, issues, reviews and comments — stars and forks excluded, so this is contribution rather than popularity
| Contributor | Contributions | Pushes | PRs | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| jyasskin | 50 | 6 | 11 | 19 |
| msporny | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| matatk | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| torgo | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| ylafon | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| mikewest | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| martinthomson | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| github-actions[bot] | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| AramZS | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| hidde | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| frivoal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| xfq | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| csarven | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| meyerweb | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| cwilso | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| sidvishnoi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| lolaodelola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| hadleybeeman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| hlflanagan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| aphillips | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Recent activity
Latest issues, pull requests and releases
- Pull request#38jyasskin2026-04-29 23:35
- Pull request#38jyasskin2026-04-10 04:02
- Pull request#38jyasskin2026-04-10 04:02
- Issue#36hlflanagan2026-02-15 15:07Clarify “non-consensus features”
- Issue#34hadleybeeman2026-02-08 14:28Structure alternatives as: Alternative → Pros → Cons → Reason for rejection.
- Issue comment#35jyasskin2025-10-28 21:39Look into "architectural decision records" as a way to persist the "alternatives considered".
- Issue#35jyasskin2025-10-15 17:03Look into "architectural decision records" as a way to persist the "alternatives considered".
- Issue#26jyasskin2025-10-01 18:02Internationalisation missing
- Issue comment#9jyasskin2025-09-27 18:35Update the WebIDL guidance for explainers
- Issue comment#29jyasskin2025-09-22 17:03Validate that pubrules passes on PRs.
- Issue comment#29sidvishnoi2025-09-20 13:54Validate that pubrules passes on PRs.
- Issue comment#17matatk2025-09-11 19:56Explainer explainer should explain how to describe Accessibility, Internationalization, Privacy, and Security Considerations
- Pull request#33jyasskin2025-09-10 21:01
- Issue comment#17jyasskin2025-09-10 20:59Explainer explainer should explain how to describe Accessibility, Internationalization, Privacy, and Security Considerations
- Issue comment#26xfq2025-09-10 02:09Internationalisation missing
- Issue comment#26aphillips2025-09-09 18:51Internationalisation missing
- Pull request#30jyasskin2025-08-27 17:13
- Issue#31jyasskin2025-07-25 23:39Meta: Make progress on this document
- Issue comment#7torgo2025-07-23 14:19Explain why to focus on the end-user's need, and/or moderate that advice
- Issue comment#7jyasskin2025-07-23 14:15Explain why to focus on the end-user's need, and/or moderate that advice
- Issue comment#19jyasskin2025-07-02 21:14Explainers are an anti-pattern
- Pull request#28jyasskin2025-07-02 17:31
- Issue comment#27msporny2025-07-02 13:53What to do for an additional feature to an existing spec?
- Issue comment#19msporny2025-07-02 13:49Explainers are an anti-pattern
- Issue comment#28jyasskin2025-07-02 07:08Fix a pubrules error, and have spec-prod check for that in PRs.
Totals cover only the window loaded into ClickHouse and count events, not GitHub's lifetime totals — 3 stars here means stars gained during the window, not the repo's star count.