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

Outside pull requests to CrowCpp/Crow got a first human reply in a median of 11.5 hours (67 pull requests, 19 April to 16 October 2026); 19% got none within 14 days. It ranks 496 of 3,219 overall. For first-time contributors it ranks 224 of 1,525 (the top 15%).

Key facts
Rank496 of 3,219
Score60.07
TierB
Median first reply11.5 hours
14-day no-reply share19%
First-timer rank224 of 1,525
EcosystemC and C++
Window19 April to 16 October 2026

Composite

Rank
496 of 3,219
Score
60.07
Tier
B
Coverage
94% · Ceiling A
Quadrant
Nursery

Coordinates: leverage 49.5 (coverage 100%), friction 30.5 (coverage 88%)

Five pillars

Score out of 100, and how much of the pillar was measured
PillarScoreCoverage
Responsiveness84.075%
Criticality46.6100%
Governance50.5100%
Rigor53.8100%
Accessibility61.6100%

The measured parameters

Responsiveness

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Decision Rate (90d)Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
PR Ghost Rate (14d)Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days.18.5%63.02720 April to 17 October 2026primaryraw/pr_window/CrowCpp__Crow.json
First-timer Merge RateShare of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.64.3%80.414—primaryraw/author_history/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Time to First ResponseMedian hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply.11.5 hours (0.5 days)100.06719 April to 16 October 2026primaryraw/pr_window/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Time to Merge (p90)Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.144.6 hours (6 days)75.25519 April to 16 October 2026primaryraw/pr_window/CrowCpp__Crow.json

Criticality

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
DependentsPackages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.Not shown: Not applicable
Monthly DownloadsDownloads from the package registry in a month.Not shown: Not applicable
OpenSSF CriticalityOpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.0.46646.6——proxy:no_dependents_signalraw/github_meta/CrowCpp__Crow.json

Governance

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Elephant FactorThe fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits.125.0110—primaryraw/commits_365d/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Legal IP RegimeThe contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.No CLA or sign-off found85.0——primaryraw/governance/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Promotion LadderHow openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified.No written path to becoming a maintainer40.0——primaryraw/governance/CrowCpp__Crow.json

Rigor

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
AI Policy PostureWhether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.No written AI policy40.0——primaryraw/governance/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Pipeline DefensesHow well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.92.415392.461—proxy:review_ciraw/pr_window/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Substantive Review RateShare of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.12.9%16.16219 April to 16 October 2026primaryraw/pr_window/CrowCpp__Crow.json

Accessibility

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Developer ExperienceDeveloper experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.27.291727.324—primaryraw/actions_runs/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Newcomer ConversionShare of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days.50.0%100.010—primaryraw/author_history/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Newcomer Issue SupplyOpen, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.330.0——primaryraw/gfi/CrowCpp__Crow.json
Newcomer Return RateShare of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days.40.0%80.05—primaryraw/author_history/CrowCpp__Crow.json

Persona view

PersonaRankScoreTierStatus
Balanced496 of 3,21960.07BRated
First-timer224 of 1,52565.51BRated
Career capitalThis repository's production-criticality signal is not yet high enough for career-capital ranking.
Senior systemsFewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor).
AI-assisted743 of 3,69658.70BRated

Integrity

Snapshot
2026-10-17
Raw hash
5669aca86b21d56cbfd1906655fa4fcf7237efd25319baf1ee3c6ae26476a79f

No suspicion flags on this repository.

The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/56.json, under the key CrowCpp/Crow.

How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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Porchlamp (2026). CrowCpp/Crow. Snapshot 2026-10-17. https://porchlamp.org/projects/crowcpp/crow/. CC BY 4.0.

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