diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 257eba5..d415882 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -55,3 +55,27 @@ namespace :modules do
     end
   end
 end
+
+namespace :github do
+  desc 'check all dependeny projects and generate a report about open pull requests'
+  task 'pull_request_stats' do
+    require 'net/https'
+    require 'uri'
+    require 'puppet'
+    repo_hash = YAML.load_file(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), repo_file))
+    (repo_hash['repos'] || {})['repo_paths'].keys.each do |url|
+      if url =~ /\w+:\/\/github\.com\/(\S+)?\/(\S+)/
+        uri = URI.parse("https://api.github.com/repos/#{$1}/#{$2}/pulls")
+        http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
+        http.use_ssl = true
+        http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
+        request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
+        response = http.request(request)
+        pull_requests = PSON.parse(response.body).size
+        puts "repo: #{$1}-#{$2}=#{pull_requests}"
+      else
+        puts "repo: #{url} does not seem to be valid"
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end