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

For h2oai/wave, the reply time and the share with no reply within 14 days both have too small a sample to measure (0 and 5 pull requests counted; 10 needed). It ranks 2,769 of 3,219 overall. It is not ranked for first-time contributors: not enough evidence to show under this lens.

Key facts
Rank2,769 of 3,219
Score38.68
TierD
Median first reply—
14-day no-reply share—
First-timer rankNot enough evidence to show under this lens.
EcosystemPython
Window—

Composite

Rank
2,769 of 3,219
Score
38.68
Tier
D
Coverage
66% · Ceiling B
Quadrant
Graveyard

Coordinates: leverage 42.3 (coverage 91%), friction 59.9 (coverage 47%)

Five pillars

Score out of 100, and how much of the pillar was measured
PillarScoreCoverage
Responsiveness50.020%
Criticality37.8100%
Governance50.5100%
Rigor44.370%
Accessibility0.035%

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.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
First-timer Merge RateShare of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.40.0%50.05—primaryraw/author_history/h2oai__wave.json
Time to First ResponseMedian hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Time to Merge (p90)Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Criticality

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
DependentsPackages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.238.4——primaryraw/dependents/h2oai__wave.json
Monthly DownloadsDownloads from the package registry in a month.159,574 downloads a month48.2——primaryraw/downloads/pypi__wave.json
OpenSSF CriticalityOpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.0.295829.6——primaryraw/github_meta/h2oai__wave.json

Governance

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Elephant FactorThe fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits.125.082—primaryraw/commits_365d/h2oai__wave.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/h2oai__wave.json
Promotion LadderHow openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified.No written path to becoming a maintainer40.0——primaryraw/governance/h2oai__wave.json

Rigor

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
AI Policy PostureWhether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.No written AI policy40.0——primaryraw/governance/h2oai__wave.json
Pipeline DefensesHow well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.47.547.5——primaryraw/scorecard/h2oai__wave.json
Substantive Review RateShare of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Accessibility

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Developer ExperienceDeveloper experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Newcomer ConversionShare of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Newcomer Issue SupplyOpen, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.00.0——primaryraw/gfi/h2oai__wave.json
Newcomer Return RateShare of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Persona view

PersonaRankScoreTierStatus
Balanced2,769 of 3,21938.68DRated
First-timerNot enough evidence to show under this lens.
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-assisted3,040 of 3,69640.63CRated

Integrity

Snapshot
2026-10-17
Raw hash
41302ab57821aa32f20d753db6899bfde83b41ca283b244a7c9b706fa0a65e2e

No suspicion flags on this repository.

The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/ec.json, under the key h2oai/wave.

How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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Porchlamp (2026). h2oai/wave. Snapshot 2026-10-17. https://porchlamp.org/projects/h2oai/wave/. CC BY 4.0.

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