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What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 17 October 2026.

For starfederation/datastar, the reply time and the share with no reply within 14 days both have too small a sample to measure (0 and 3 pull requests counted; 10 needed). It ranks 2,754 of 3,219 overall. It is not ranked for first-time contributors: not enough evidence to show under this lens.

Key facts
Rank2,754 of 3,219
Score38.92
TierD
Median first reply—
14-day no-reply share—
First-timer rankNot enough evidence to show under this lens.
EcosystemJavaScript
Window—

Composite

Rank
2,754 of 3,219
Score
38.92
Tier
D
Coverage
66% · Ceiling B
Quadrant
Nursery

Coordinates: leverage 33.3 (coverage 91%), friction 49.7 (coverage 44%)

Five pillars

Score out of 100, and how much of the pillar was measured
PillarScoreCoverage
Responsiveness—0%
Criticality18.3100%
Governance50.5100%
Rigor46.970%
Accessibility50.070%

The measured parameters

Responsiveness

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Decision Rate (90d)Share of outside pull requests that were merged or closed within 90 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
PR Ghost Rate (14d)Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
First-timer Merge RateShare of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Time to First ResponseMedian hours from an outside pull request opening to its first substantive human reply.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Time to Merge (p90)Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Criticality

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
DependentsPackages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each.010.1——primaryraw/dependents/starfederation__datastar.json
Monthly DownloadsDownloads from the package registry in a month.2,343 downloads a month11.5——primaryraw/downloads/npm__datastar.json
OpenSSF CriticalityOpenSSF criticality score from 0 to 1, computed from the project's public activity signals.0.323432.3——primaryraw/github_meta/starfederation__datastar.json

Governance

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Elephant FactorThe fewest organisations that account for half of the last year's commits.125.086—primaryraw/commits_365d/starfederation__datastar.json
Legal IP RegimeThe contributor licence regime: DCO, none, a foundation CLA or a corporate CLA.No CLA or sign-off found85.0——primaryraw/governance/starfederation__datastar.json
Promotion LadderHow openly a contributor can become a maintainer, from closed to verified.No written path to becoming a maintainer40.0——primaryraw/governance/starfederation__datastar.json

Rigor

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
AI Policy PostureWhether the project has a written policy on AI-assisted contributions.No written AI policy40.0——primaryraw/governance/starfederation__datastar.json
Pipeline DefensesHow well the project's build and review pipeline defends against bad changes, 0 to 100.5252.015—proxy:review_ciraw/pr_window/starfederation__datastar.json
Substantive Review RateShare of decided pull requests that received a substantive review.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Accessibility

ParameterValueScoreCountWindowSource
Developer ExperienceDeveloper experience, 0 to 100: half CI run time, half setup signals.Not shown: Insufficient sample size
Newcomer ConversionShare of first-time authors whose first pull request merged within 180 days.60.0%100.05—primaryraw/author_history/starfederation__datastar.json
Newcomer Issue SupplyOpen, unassigned, up-to-date issues marked for newcomers.00.0——primaryraw/gfi/starfederation__datastar.json
Newcomer Return RateShare of those merged first-time authors who sent a second pull request within 90 days.Not shown: Insufficient sample size

Persona view

PersonaRankScoreTierStatus
Balanced2,754 of 3,21938.92DRated
First-timerNot enough evidence to show under this lens.
Career capitalThis repository's production-criticality signal is not yet high enough for career-capital ranking.
Senior systemsFewer than 3 organizations account for most commits (not multi-vendor).
AI-assisted3,020 of 3,69640.78CRated

Integrity

Snapshot
2026-10-17
Raw hash
91d20f58340253943e0473a8b2e8bc9b1b75ee1edd19f139a68df5e38c4cfdba

No suspicion flags on this repository.

The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/5d.json, under the key starfederation/datastar.

How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.

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Porchlamp (2026). starfederation/datastar. Snapshot 2026-10-17. https://porchlamp.org/projects/starfederation/datastar/. CC BY 4.0.

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