apache/opendal
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to opendal got a first human reply in a median of 6.7 hours (193 pull requests, 11 April to 8 October 2026); 12% got none within 14 days. It ranks 87 of 3,833 overall and 275 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 70.24
- Coverage: 93% · Ceiling A
- Tier: A (capped)
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: crates.io (Rust)
Capped: this tier can go no higher until more of the project's inputs are measured. It reflects how much data there is, not how good the score is.
Five pillars
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 93.0 | 100% |
| Criticality | 64.6 | 100% |
| Governance | 73.3 | 100% |
| Rigor | 75.5 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 32.5 | 50% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 87 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 275 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 128 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Rank 44 of 1,206 |
| AI-assisted | Rank 49 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 6.6953 | 193 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply. |
| Decision Rate (90d) | 0.8276 | 29 | 11 April to 10 July 2026 | Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days. |
| First-timer Merge Rate | 1 | 7 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.1166 | 163 | 16 April to 13 October 2026 | Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days. |
| Time to Merge (p90) | 144.8439 | 158 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 34 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.5054 | — | — | OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals. |
| Monthly Downloads | 1782708 | — | — | Downloads from the package registry in a month. |
| Legal IP Regime | FOUNDATION_CLA | — | — | The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA. |
| Elephant Factor | 4 | 929 | — | The fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits. |
| Promotion Ladder | AD_HOC | — | — | How openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified. |
| Pipeline Defenses | 94.0621 | 397 | — | How well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100. |
| AI Policy Posture | REGULATED | — | — | Whether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions. |
| Substantive Review Rate | 0.25 | 204 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review. |
| Newcomer Issue Supply | 1 | — | — | Open, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers. |
| Newcomer Conversion | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | Share of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days. |
| Newcomer Return Rate | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | Share of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days. |
| Developer Experience | 85 | 6 | — | Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals. |
Similar projects
The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.
- delta-io/delta-rs (rank 80)
- nushell/nushell (rank 83)
- zed-industries/zed (rank 85)
- hickory-dns/hickory-dns (rank 86)
- uutils/coreutils (rank 98)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
3ef1cfc6e1f5d8b41f1a9129b7b4b5d28a60ae32c7d72e5feaa3ecb19a78b29b - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/91.json, under the key
apache/opendal. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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