cadence-workflow/cadence

What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.

Outside pull requests to cadence got a first human reply in a median of 18.1 hours (219 pull requests, 11 April to 8 October 2026); 21% got none within 14 days. It ranks 63 of 3,833 overall and 12 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.

Rating

  • Score: 71.09
  • Coverage: 93% · Ceiling A
  • Tier: A (capped)
  • Quadrant: Sweet Spot
  • Ecosystem: Go

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
PillarScoreCoverage
Responsiveness83.9100%
Criticality28.4100%
Governance82.0100%
Rigor77.4100%
Accessibility100.050%

Rank in each lens

LensStanding
BalancedRank 63 of 3,833
First-timerRank 12 of 1,968
Career capitalNot ranked: This repository's production-criticality signal is not yet high enough for career-capital ranking.
Senior systemsRank 247 of 1,206
AI-assistedRank 53 of 3,929
The measured parameters
ParameterValueCountWindowWhat it measures
Time to First Response18.113921911 April to 8 October 2026Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply.
Decision Rate (90d)0.97789011 April to 10 July 2026Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days.
First-timer Merge Rate110—Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.
PR Ghost Rate (14d)0.212422616 April to 13 October 2026Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days.
Time to Merge (p90)287.223118311 April to 8 October 2026Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.
Dependents0——Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.
OpenSSF Criticality0.4211——OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.
Monthly DownloadsNot shown: Not applicable——Downloads from the package registry in a month.
Legal IP RegimeDCO——The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.
Elephant Factor4880—The fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits.
Promotion LadderAD_HOC——How openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified.
Pipeline Defenses95.8333360—How well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.
AI Policy PostureREGULATED——Whether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.
Substantive Review Rate0.282426211 April to 8 October 2026Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.
Newcomer Issue Supply16——Open, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.
Newcomer ConversionNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Share of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days.
Newcomer Return RateNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Share of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days.
Developer Experience10015—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 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
  • Record hash: b679a09f068ae6f617bb87d793381412df5aa3f53d8050c404c393e5126562ea
  • The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/b9.json, under the key cadence-workflow/cadence.
  • How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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