plotly/plotly.py
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to plotly.py got a first human reply in a median of 21.5 hours (104 pull requests, 10 April to 7 October 2026); 22% got none within 14 days. It ranks 248 of 3,833 overall and 537 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 66.12
- Coverage: 100% · Full
- Tier: B
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: PyPI
Five pillars
| Pillar | Score | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
| Responsiveness | 66.6 | 100% |
| Criticality | 80.9 | 100% |
| Governance | 59.3 | 100% |
| Rigor | 59.8 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 56.2 | 100% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 248 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 537 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 91 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Not ranked: Fewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor). |
| AI-assisted | Rank 313 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 21.4992 | 104 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Median hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply. |
| Decision Rate (90d) | 0.8846 | 26 | 10 April to 9 July 2026 | Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days. |
| First-timer Merge Rate | 0.3333 | 51 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.2245 | 98 | 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) | 809.9783 | 76 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 2313 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.5747 | — | — | OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals. |
| Monthly Downloads | 48777457 | — | — | 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 | 2 | 764 | — | 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 | 80 | — | — | 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 | 0.4211 | 95 | 10 April to 7 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 | 0.4706 | 17 | — | Share of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days. |
| Newcomer Return Rate | 0 | 8 | — | Share of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days. |
| Developer Experience | 85 | 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.
- data-privacy-stack/presidio (rank 232)
- astral-sh/ty (rank 238)
- sympy/sympy (rank 246)
- qubvel-org/segmentation_models.pytorch (rank 255)
- kedro-org/kedro (rank 258)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
7cf8306730ef816872fe9b5848f4bde1850a0ecae9224c776b258fc1ec8fb41a - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/75.json, under the key
plotly/plotly.py. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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