ray-project/ray
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 14 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to ray got a first human reply in a median of 22.9 hours (148 pull requests, 10 April to 7 October 2026); 42% got none within 14 days. It ranks 41 of 3,833 overall and 91 of 1,968 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 72.90
- Coverage: 81% · Ceiling A
- Tier: A (capped)
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: PyPI
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 | 57.7 | 55% |
| Criticality | 75.6 | 100% |
| Governance | 73.3 | 100% |
| Rigor | 75.2 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 91.0 | 50% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 41 of 3,833 |
| First-timer | Rank 91 of 1,968 |
| Career capital | Rank 14 of 823 |
| Senior systems | Rank 27 of 1,206 |
| AI-assisted | Rank 35 of 3,929 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 22.9306 | 148 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | 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 | Not shown: Insufficient sample size | — | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.4167 | 108 | 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) | 174.0381 | 149 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | 310 | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.5923 | — | — | OpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals. |
| Monthly Downloads | 13701060 | — | — | Downloads from the package registry in a month. |
| Legal IP Regime | DCO | — | — | The contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA. |
| Elephant Factor | 3 | 1,000 | — | 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 | 92.5 | — | — | 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 | 0.2584 | 209 | 10 April to 7 October 2026 | Share of decided pull requests that received a substantive review. |
| Newcomer Issue Supply | 23 | — | — | 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 | 70 | 30 | — | Developer experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals. |
Similar projects
The ranked projects nearest this one in the same ecosystem.
- networkx/networkx (rank 33)
- scikit-learn/scikit-learn (rank 35)
- getsentry/sentry (rank 39)
- kubernetes-client/python (rank 43)
- pylint-dev/pylint (rank 45)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-14, data as of 13 October 2026.
- Record hash:
cf9760be82710fd4cf60bae6d28cc747f5f38984e4405d02f0c608aeed3adced - The full record is in data/2026-10-14/repos/3d.json, under the key
ray-project/ray. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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