TheAlgorithms / TheAlgorithms/Python
priya-sundaram-dev as a triager?
@dynamitechetan is already working on this.
Since Aug 26, 2026.
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 225k
- Forks
- 51.1k
- Avg merge
- 1d 23h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 156
Description
@priya-sundaram-dev Would you be interested in becoming a maintainer of this repo which has 224k GitHub Stars? I have been very impressed by your capabilities on other repos and this on needs lots of love!
There are 900+ open pull requests but we have high standards in CONTRIBUTING.md for “What is an algorithm?”, naming, Python types, testing (mostly but not exclusively doctests), avoiding duplicate algorithms, etc. There is the algorithms-keeper to help guide contributors thru code reviews. There are gh scripts in the scripts directory for mass closing pull requests that do not meet our standards.
We want to all contributors to feel like this is a welcome community where they can learn new skills. We also want to keep our high standards while reducing our list of open pull requests. We have earned so many GitHub Stars because we have curated a large set of useful and interesting algorithms. We hope you will join us as a maintainer.
P.S. The load of incoming pull requests swells at HacktoberFest!!!
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