istio/istio

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

Outside pull requests to istio got a first human reply in a median of under 0.1 hours (188 pull requests, 10 April to 7 October 2026); 3% got none within 14 days. It ranks 290 of 3,833 overall and 551 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.

Rating

  • Score: 65.32
  • Coverage: 79% · 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
PillarScoreCoverage
Responsiveness90.155%
Criticality65.7100%
Governance73.3100%
Rigor48.1100%
Accessibility30.035%

Rank in each lens

LensStanding
BalancedRank 290 of 3,833
First-timerRank 551 of 1,968
Career capitalRank 256 of 823
Senior systemsRank 168 of 1,206
AI-assistedRank 553 of 3,929
The measured parameters
ParameterValueCountWindowWhat it measures
Time to First Response0.003918810 April to 7 October 2026Median 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 RateNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.
PR Ghost Rate (14d)0.03239316 April to 13 October 2026Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days.
Time to Merge (p90)237.30258010 April to 7 October 2026Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.
Dependents119——Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.
OpenSSF Criticality0.5805——OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.
Monthly DownloadsNot shown: Not applicable——Downloads from the package registry in a month.
Legal IP RegimeFOUNDATION_CLA——The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.
Elephant Factor4996—The fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits.
Promotion LadderAD_HOC——How openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified.
Pipeline Defenses35——How well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.
AI Policy PostureREGULATED——Whether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.
Substantive Review Rate0.148113510 April to 7 October 2026Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.
Newcomer Issue Supply3——Open, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.
Newcomer ConversionNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Share of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days.
Newcomer Return RateNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Share of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days.
Developer ExperienceNot shown: Insufficient sample size——Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.

Similar projects

The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.

Evidence

  • Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
  • Record hash: c87875682c6688ec3fa32c2c3ee7c83bc01e3723722eee28332abf35e945b8b8
  • The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/3b.json, under the key istio/istio.
  • How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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