open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to opentelemetry-collector got a first human reply in a median of 12.1 hours (222 pull requests, 11 April to 8 October 2026); 39% got none within 14 days. It ranks 174 of 3,833 overall and 681 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 67.63
- Coverage: 93% · Ceiling A
- Tier: B
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: Go
Five pillars
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 65.0 | 100% |
| Criticality | 75.7 | 100% |
| Governance | 83.8 | 100% |
| Rigor | 65.3 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 39.4 | 50% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 174 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 681 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 123 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Rank 35 of 1,206 |
| AI-assisted | Rank 170 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 12.0819 | 222 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply. |
| Decision Rate (90d) | 1 | 15 | 11 April to 10 July 2026 | Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days. |
| First-timer Merge Rate | 0.1875 | 16 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.3856 | 153 | 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) | 675.3564 | 145 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 1961 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.5959 | — | — | 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 | FOUNDATION_CLA | — | — | The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA. |
| Elephant Factor | 6 | 727 | — | 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 | 68 | — | — | How well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100. |
| AI Policy Posture | REGULATED | — | — | Whether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions. |
| Substantive Review Rate | 0.2564 | 234 | 11 April to 8 October 2026 | Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review. |
| Newcomer Issue Supply | 3 | — | — | 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 | 61.4583 | 8 | — | Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals. |
Similar projects
The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.
- k8sgpt-ai/k8sgpt (rank 168)
- gdamore/tcell (rank 169)
- openbao/openbao (rank 171)
- go-swagger/go-swagger (rank 180)
- mongodb/mongo-go-driver (rank 181)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
60cd90fa4c0e31f95b4670058d121bdb1728e72109236488feca13f64fc586e6 - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/88.json, under the key
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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