go-sql-driver/mysql

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

Outside pull requests to mysql got a first human reply in a median of 2.6 hours (26 pull requests, 10 April to 7 October 2026); 31% got none within 14 days. It ranks 418 of 3,833 overall. It is not ranked for first-time contributors: not enough evidence to show under this lens.

Rating

Score: 63.74
Coverage: 80% · Ceiling B
Tier: B (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
Pillar	Score	Coverage
Responsiveness	81.3	55%
Criticality	75.9	100%
Governance	64.2	65%
Rigor	48.5	100%
Accessibility	28.8	85%

Rank in each lens

Lens	Standing
Balanced	Rank 418 of 3,833
First-timer	Not ranked: Not enough evidence to show under this lens.
Career capital	Rank 244 of 823
Senior systems	Rank 166 of 1,206
AI-assisted	Rank 665 of 3,929

The measured parameters

Parameter	Value	Count	Window	What it measures
Time to First Response	2.6482	26	10 April to 7 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)	0.3077	13	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)	57.8147	24	10 April to 7 October 2026	Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.
Dependents	27375	—	—	Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.
OpenSSF Criticality	0.5037	—	—	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	NONE	—	—	The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.
Elephant Factor	Not shown: Insufficient sample size	—	—	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	72.5	—	—	How well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.
AI Policy Posture	AD_HOC	—	—	Whether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.
Substantive Review Rate	0.2	35	10 April to 7 October 2026	Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.
Newcomer Issue Supply	0	—	—	Open, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.
Newcomer Conversion	0.2	5	—	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	70	30	—	Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.

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Evidence

Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
Record hash: cd316ffac2f175895b11c55bf3a53701be017ddbf19cd9637f71581395af7fd9
The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/d6.json, under the key go-sql-driver/mysql.
How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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