All tickets backlog today.
Core Trac tickets have 8,223 open tickets today out of 64,951 total tickets in this view.
WordPress Core ticket flow since 2003
A long-run view of Core Trac backlog, ticket flow, reporter activity, closure mix, and GitHub code-review activity linked to Trac.
Current open Core tickets
8,223
Core Trac tickets not closed today
Since 2003 ticket flow
64,951 new / 56,728 closed
January 1, 2003 through June 11, 2026
Reporter flow
108 first-time in latest quarter
Latest quarter is partial
GitHub PRs linked to Trac
10,237
wordpress-develop PRs created since the GitHub mirror started
Ticket flow is the main story.
New tickets averaged 283 per quarter in the first active year of this view and 446 recently. When closures rise above new tickets, the open backlog bends down.
GitHub is review traffic, not the issue source.
wordpress-develop has 10,237 PRs linked to this view. It helps explain implementation activity without replacing Trac ticket flow.
Current open Core bugs
4,664
Core Trac bugs not closed today
Since 2003 ticket flow
44,740 new / 40,076 closed
January 1, 2003 through June 11, 2026
Reporter flow
89 first-time in latest quarter
Latest quarter is partial
GitHub PRs linked to Trac
5,117
wordpress-develop PRs linked to core bugs
Bugs backlog today.
Core Trac bugs have 4,664 open tickets today out of 44,740 total tickets in this view.
Ticket flow is the main story.
New tickets averaged 235 per quarter in the first active year of this view and 309 recently. When closures rise above new tickets, the open backlog bends down.
GitHub is review traffic, not the issue source.
wordpress-develop has 5,117 PRs linked to this view. It helps explain implementation activity without replacing Trac ticket flow.
Current open Core feature requests
524
Core Trac feature requests not closed today
Since 2003 ticket flow
2,357 new / 1,833 closed
January 1, 2003 through June 11, 2026
Reporter flow
16 first-time in latest quarter
Latest quarter is partial
GitHub PRs linked to Trac
202
wordpress-develop PRs linked to core feature requests
Feature requests backlog today.
Core Trac feature requests have 524 open tickets today out of 2,357 total tickets in this view.
Ticket flow is the main story.
New tickets averaged 3 per quarter in the first active year of this view and 14 recently. When closures rise above new tickets, the open backlog bends down.
GitHub is review traffic, not the issue source.
wordpress-develop has 202 PRs linked to this view. It helps explain implementation activity without replacing Trac ticket flow.
Method and source files
Data window: January 1, 2003 through June 11, 2026. Core ticket inventory comes from Core Trac CSV exports; the first ticket in the export was created on June 10, 2004. Closure and reopen timing comes from public ticket RSS feeds for closed and reopened tickets. GitHub activity comes from the GitHub API for WordPress/wordpress-develop pull requests.
Generated files: quarterly_metrics.csv, monthly_metrics.csv, component_summary.csv, resolution_summary.csv, and github_pr_quarterly.csv.
Filtered CSVs add _bugs or _feature_requests before the extension. Category filters come from /Users/admin/wordpress_ticket_classification/wordpress_tickets.sqlite.
Most closure dates are parsed from RSS status-change events. Tickets without a public close event in the parsed feed use the Trac modified timestamp as a fallback.