🔄 Weekly pulse report: 2026-08-28

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+# 📊 GitHub Pulse Scout — areal-project/AReaL
+
+**Window:** 2026-08-21T13:16:30.270Z → 2026-08-28T13:16:30.270Z **Issues fetched:** 7
+
+## Activity
+
+| Metric            | Count |
+| :---------------- | ----: |
+| 🆕 New issues     |     2 |
+| ✅ Closed issues  |     5 |
+| 📂 Currently open |     2 |
+
+## Response efficiency
+
+| Metric                 | Value |
+| :--------------------- | ----: |
+| Avg close time (hours) | 419.4 |
+| Avg close time (days)  | 17.48 |
+| Closed sample size     |     5 |
+| Unique issue authors   |     6 |
+
+## Top labels
+
+| Label        | Count |
+| :----------- | ----: |
+| `bug`        |     3 |
+| `stale`      |     3 |
+| `governance` |     1 |
+
+## 🔥 Hottest issues
+
+- [#1612](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1612) — [Feature] Migrate
+  multimodal vLLM rollouts to token-in/token-out generation (💬 **2**)
+- [#1581](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1581) — [BUG][V2]Memory leak
+  when DELETE /data/clear fails (💬 **2**)
+- [#1559](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1559) — [Feature] Mask unusable
+  samples in incomplete rollout groups / 屏蔽不完整 rollout group 中的不可用样本 (💬 **2**)
+- [#1557](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1557) — [BUG] FSDP packed SFT
+  passes a dict attention mask to Llama models (💬 **2**)
+- [#1642](https://github.com/areal-project/AReaL/issues/1642) — [DISCUSS] Putting
+  governance into practice: retiring inactive maintainers & the contributor ladder (💬
+  **0**)
+
+## 🤖 AI Summary
+
+# Pulse summary — last **7 days**
+
+### Overall
+
+AReaL shows **steady throughput** with more closures than openings and a compact
+backlog, but turnaround is **slow** and technical debt is surfacing in core paths.
+Governance is moving from policy to practice, which may clarify roles and speed
+decisions.
+
+### Trends & focus
+
+- Activity is balanced: fresh feature work (#1612) and bug fixes (#1581) alongside
+  stale, deferred items.
+- **~17.5 days** average close time limits agility; several bugs lingered weeks despite
+  being reproducible.
+- Participation is distributed (6 authors), yet stale labels and old rejections (#1557,
+  #1559) hint at misaligned scope or review bandwidth.
+- Themes: token/mask consistency, memory/leak resilience, and model-agnostic contracts
+  (FSDP, vLLM, Megatron).
+
+### Recommendations
+
+- Triage and patch high-impact leaks and mask/shape bugs before new features expand
+  surface.
+- Set a **48–72 hour first-response SLA** and add owners to unstick long-lived issues.
+- Run the governance plan this quarter to convert contributor work into clear roles and
+  permissions.
+
+<small>Generated on 2026-08-28T13:16:30.273Z by
+[GH Pulse Scout](https://github.com/oss-infra/gh-pulse-scout), a tool that analyzes
+GitHub issue data to provide insights into project health and trends with AI 💖.</small>