Issue Tracker Statistical Analysis: Findings for Items #1–#24

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Issue Tracker Statistical Analysis: Items #1–#24

This issue formally documents a statistical analysis of the first 24 entries in the A-EVO-Lab/a-evolve repository's issue tracker.

Key Findings

1. Open Non-Pull-Request Issues: 2
   — Among the accessible items in positions Feedback & Future Directions: What should A-evolve learn next? #1 through docs: remove empty Discord link in README #24, two are open issues that are not pull requests: Feedback & Future Directions: What should A-evolve learn next? #1 and Release Adaptive Auto-Harness and PolyBench on Hugging Face #22.

2. Unique Contributors Who Filed Accessible Items: 14
   — Fourteen distinct GitHub users authored the 23 accessible items (issue Add __all__ for clean public API exports #18 was not found/not accessible).

3. Item with the Most Comments: feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination #12 (5 comments)
   — Issue feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination #12, "feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination," filed by @rohitsandadi, has the highest comment count at 5.

See the comment below for the full detailed statistical breakdown.

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Detailed Statistical Breakdown: Items #1–#24

Accessibility Status

Item #	Accessible?	Notes
#1–#17	✅ Yes	—
#18	❌ No	Returned "Not Found" — item does not exist or is not accessible
#19–#24	✅ Yes	—

Total accessible items: 23 out of 24 positions.

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Complete Item Inventory

#	Title	Type	State	Author	Comments
1	Feedback & Future Directions: What should A-evolve learn next?	Issue	Open	HanqingLu	1
2	feat: add HippocampalEvolveEngine — associative memory evolution	PR	Open	allthingssecurity	2
3	Bug: build_evolution_prompt() missing parameters in skillforge engine	Issue	Closed	jihwanw	2
4	Claude/local neural network api z9461	PR	Closed	goodwinka	0
5	fix skillbench prompt bug and add document for guided_synth algorithm	PR	Closed	ventr1c	0
6	Replace hardcode path of skillbench	PR	Closed	ventr1c	0
7	Prepare for PyPI publishing and improve package quality	PR	Closed	Gitsamshi	0
8	prepare pypi package	PR	Closed	Gitsamshi	0
9	Add Meta-Harness algorithm for MCP-Atlas benchmark	PR	Closed	YisiSang	0
10	add meta harness paper url	PR	Closed	YisiSang	0
11	Add a-evolve tb2 harness for clawcode	PR	Closed	binghe2727	0
12	feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination	Issue	Closed	rohitsandadi	5
13	Add braided evolution prompt (BUILD-TEST alternation)	PR	Open	Cranot	1
14	A evolve arc agi mas	PR	Closed	Gitsamshi	0
15	feat: integrate GEPA engine & allow engines to manage own evaluation	PR	Closed	rohitsandadi	1
16	Add MAS Adaptive Evolver	PR	Closed	binghe2727	0
17	Add CL-bench benchmark adapter with rubric-guided skill distillation	PR	Closed	weitianxin	0
18	—	Not accessible	—	—	—
19	Add OSWorld benchmark: GUI agent evolution	PR	Closed	weitianxin	0
20	Add ProposeCurateEngine: unified evolution engine for OSWorld & CL-bench	PR	Closed	weitianxin	0
21	Add the implementation of paper "Harness Updating Is Not Harness Benefit"	PR	Closed	ventr1c	0
22	Release Adaptive Auto-Harness and PolyBench on Hugging Face	Issue	Open	NielsRogge	2
23	Pr/adaptive auto harness	PR	Closed	nuuuh	0
24	docs: remove empty Discord link in README	PR	Open	meichuanyi	0

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Finding 1: Open Non-Pull-Request Issues — 2

The four non-PR issues among accessible items are:

• Feedback & Future Directions: What should A-evolve learn next? #1 — Open ✅
• Bug: build_evolution_prompt() missing parameters in skillforge engine #3 — Closed ❌
• feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination #12 — Closed ❌
• Release Adaptive Auto-Harness and PolyBench on Hugging Face #22 — Open ✅

Result: 2 open non-pull-request issues (#1 and #22).

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Finding 2: Unique Contributors — 14

#	Contributor	Items Filed
1	HanqingLu	#1
2	allthingssecurity	#2
3	jihwanw	#3
4	goodwinka	#4
5	ventr1c	#5, #6, #21 (3 items)
6	Gitsamshi	#7, #8, #14 (3 items)
7	YisiSang	#9, #10 (2 items)
8	binghe2727	#11, #16 (2 items)
9	rohitsandadi	#12, #15 (2 items)
10	Cranot	#13
11	weitianxin	#17, #19, #20 (3 items)
12	NielsRogge	#22
13	nuuuh	#23
14	meichuanyi	#24

Result: 14 unique contributors filed the 23 accessible items.

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Finding 3: Item with Most Comments — #12 with 5 comments

Comment counts across all accessible items:

#	Comments	#	Comments	#	Comments
1	1	9	0	17	0
2	2	10	0	19	0
3	2	11	0	20	0
4	0	12	5 🏆	21	0
5	0	13	1	22	2
6	0	14	0	23	0
7	0	15	1	24	0
8	0	16	0

Result: Issue #12 ("feat: allow evolution engines to manage their own evaluation loop and termination") has the most comments with 5.

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Summary Statistics

Metric	Value
Positions examined	24
Accessible items	23
Not accessible	1 (#18)
Pull requests	19
Non-PR issues	4
Open non-PR issues	2
Closed non-PR issues	2
Open PRs	3 (#2, #13, #24)
Closed PRs	16
Unique contributors	14
Item with most comments	#12 (5 comments)
Total comments across all items	14