hashicorp/nomad
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to nomad got a first human reply in a median of 0.6 hours (289 pull requests, 10 April to 7 October 2026); 7% got none within 14 days. It ranks 552 of 3,833 overall and 812 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 62.35
- Coverage: 93% · Ceiling A
- Tier: B
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: Go
Five pillars
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 95.8 | 100% |
| Criticality | 77.3 | 100% |
| Governance | 38.3 | 100% |
| Rigor | 50.6 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 25.5 | 50% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 552 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 812 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 292 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Not ranked: Fewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor). |
| AI-assisted | Rank 697 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 0.6047 | 289 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply. |
| Decision Rate (90d) | 0.898 | 49 | 10 April to 9 July 2026 | Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days. |
| First-timer Merge Rate | 0.8333 | 6 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.0731 | 260 | 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) | 113.3383 | 265 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 3933 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.6063 | — | — | 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 | CORP_CLA | — | — | The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA. |
| Elephant Factor | 2 | 630 | — | 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 | 87.5 | — | — | 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 | 0.0973 | 298 | 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 | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | 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 | 85 | 7 | — | Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals. |
Similar projects
The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.
- kubernetes/minikube (rank 550)
- jackc/pgx (rank 551)
- grafana/pyroscope (rank 561)
- projectcalico/calico (rank 564)
- cilium/ebpf (rank 566)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
0f2e917ddc5e94dffffc74d72d1700d01358da36521082d8aafe9d7811448fba - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/66.json, under the key
hashicorp/nomad. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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