bazelbuild/bazel

What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 17 October 2026.

Outside pull requests to bazel got a first human reply in a median of 2.6 hours (104 pull requests, 18 April to 15 October 2026); 23% got none within 14 days. It ranks 403 of 4,322 overall and 122 of 2,132 for first-time contributors.

Rating

Score: 64.47
Coverage: 68% · Ceiling B
Tier: B (capped)
Quadrant: Sweet Spot
Ecosystem: Maven (Java)

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

Score out of 100, and how much of the pillar was measured
Pillar	Score	Coverage
Responsiveness	77.7	55%
Criticality	61.5	47%
Governance	29.5	100%
Rigor	63.0	100%
Accessibility	95.5	50%

Rank in each lens

Lens	Standing
Balanced	Rank 403 of 4,322
First-timer	Rank 122 of 2,132
Career capital	Not ranked: Not enough evidence to show under this lens.
Senior systems	Not ranked: Fewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor).
AI-assisted	Rank 449 of 4,440

The measured parameters

Parameter	Value	Count	Window	What it measures
Time to First Response	2.5619	104	18 April to 15 October 2026	Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply.
Decision Rate (90d)	Not shown: Insufficient sample size	—	—	Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days.
First-timer Merge Rate	Not shown: Insufficient sample size	—	—	Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.
PR Ghost Rate (14d)	0.2315	108	20 April to 17 October 2026	Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days.
Time to Merge (p90)	296.2914	5	18 April to 15 October 2026	Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.
Dependents	Not shown: Third-party data unavailable	—	—	Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.
OpenSSF Criticality	0.615	—	—	OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.
Monthly Downloads	Not shown: Not applicable	—	—	Downloads from the package registry in a month.
Legal IP Regime	CORP_CLA	—	—	The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.
Elephant Factor	1	998	—	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	58	—	—	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	0.3	80	18 April to 15 October 2026	Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.
Newcomer Issue Supply	23	—	—	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	30	—	Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.

Similar projects

The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.

Evidence

Snapshot 2026-10-17, data as of 17 October 2026.
Record hash: 49aa75b431dd4923e35a8253a83b4aaa732d398f3aac49bd6caa075d568dfdd0
The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/fd.json, under the key bazelbuild/bazel.
How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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