grpc/grpc-node
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 17 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to grpc-node got a first human reply in a median of 35.6 hours (22 pull requests, 19 April to 16 October 2026); 23% got none within 14 days. It ranks 1,100 of 4,322 overall. It is not ranked for first-time contributors: not enough evidence to show under this lens.
Rating
- Score: 58.69
- Coverage: 89% · Ceiling A
- Tier: B
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: npm
Five pillars
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 57.9 | 55% |
| Criticality | 72.6 | 100% |
| Governance | 57.5 | 100% |
| Rigor | 44.4 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 52.8 | 100% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 1,100 of 4,322 |
| First-timer | Not ranked: Not enough evidence to show under this lens. |
| Career capital | Rank 370 of 907 |
| Senior systems | Not ranked: Fewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor). |
| AI-assisted | Rank 1,490 of 4,440 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 35.6154 | 22 | 19 April to 16 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) | 0.2308 | 26 | 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) | 178.22 | 20 | 19 April to 16 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 1412 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.479 | — | — | OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals. |
| Monthly Downloads | 258150103 | — | — | 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 | 1 | 87 | — | The fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits. |
| Promotion Ladder | DOCUMENTED | — | — | 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 | 0.0909 | 22 | 19 April to 16 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 | 0.75 | 8 | — | Share of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days. |
| Newcomer Return Rate | 0.1667 | 6 | — | 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.
- n8n-io/n8n (rank 1,093)
- hyperdxio/hyperdx (rank 1,096)
- trpc/trpc (rank 1,097)
- kanbn/kan (rank 1,099)
- protobufjs/protobuf.js (rank 1,106)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-17, data as of 17 October 2026.
- Record hash:
2a92c5ac49b75db2363042fcbeb73423419147c02db10a2cbb3f1ff995648d86 - The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/ec.json, under the key
grpc/grpc-node. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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