REST API: get repository: Provide a way to determine separate issue count and pull request count

[jayaddison]

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Hi there,

The 'get repository' GitHub REST API endpoint returns useful top-level information about a repository, including basic statistics (stargazer count, follower count, fork count, ...). It also reports the total number of combined open issues plus pull requests in the open_issues (and equivalent open_issues_count) field.

Because issues tend to describe requests from consumers, while pull requests tend to be contributions, there's a difference-in-type between them, and as a user of the API it could be useful to know how much of the open_issues count is pull requests (for example, PyPi displays the values separately when users view a Python package on their website).

Would it be possible to add an open_pull_requests_count field to the get repository API?

Thanks,
James