24 Pull Requests - Giving little gifts of code for Christmas

I'm going to do my best to participate.

This is a great concept and execution. Thanks for taking the initiative to make this a reality. Well done!

Now someone gift suhosin code for php 5.4 https://github.com/stefanesser/suhosin/

I am starting to fear one-person projects no matter how great.

Never rely on a one-person project unless you can support the code yourself if you find significant bugs. If that one person is busy or just plain unavailable and you can't investigate and possibly fix the problem yourself, you are out of luck.

Obviously there are a few exceptions to that, for instance if the project is very widely used then you will get good support from the wider community (though in most cases like that the official devloper pool has grown beyond one by this point too).

I'm not saying the above to put down single-person projects or their creators: there are some brilliant people out there working on them. But brilliant people are often busy and are not immune to illness, needing to work on other things to pay the bills, family matters, or just have other interests that sap their time, and sod's law says they will be otherwise occupied just when you need their attention most!

When selecting a project, should I evaluate the # of pull requests or issues to determine which projects could use the most help? For the OSS pros out there, does it matter?