panjf2000/ants
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
The reply time and the share with no reply within 14 days both have too small a sample to measure (0 and 7 pull requests counted; 10 needed). It ranks 827 of 3,833 overall and 710 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 59.89
- Coverage: 69% · 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
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 82.4 | 30% |
| Criticality | 64.0 | 100% |
| Governance | 64.2 | 65% |
| Rigor | 24.3 | 70% |
| Accessibility | 45.3 | 85% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 827 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 710 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 379 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Rank 457 of 1,206 |
| AI-assisted | Rank 1,916 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | 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 | 0.6 | 5 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days. |
| Time to Merge (p90) | 13.1581 | 7 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 1096 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.3809 | — | — | 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 | NONE | — | — | The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA. |
| Elephant Factor | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | 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 | 12.5 | — | — | 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 | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | 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 | 0.4 | 5 | — | 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 | 70 | 29 | — | Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals. |
Similar projects
The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.
- fleetdm/fleet (rank 817)
- bytebase/bytebase (rank 821)
- ko-build/ko (rank 828)
- schollz/croc (rank 829)
- wazero/wazero (rank 834)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
bca7c4dc42f950d9bd068bb36a5d3f4d1e55d84da80904abd213a7007f0f12a2 - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/bd.json, under the key
panjf2000/ants. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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