stleary/JSON-java
What happens to a stranger's pull request here, in the Porchlamp snapshot of 17 October 2026.
Outside pull requests to JSON-java got a first human reply in a median of 31.6 hours (16 pull requests, 19 April to 16 October 2026); 8% got none within 14 days. It ranks 1,198 of 4,322 overall and 790 of 2,132 for first-time contributors.
Rating
- Score: 58.04
- Coverage: 78% · Ceiling B
- Tier: B (capped)
- Quadrant: Sweet Spot
- Ecosystem: Maven (Java)
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 | 72.4 | 75% |
| Criticality | 45.8 | 47% |
| Governance | 68.0 | 100% |
| Rigor | 45.8 | 100% |
| Accessibility | 53.5 | 85% |
Rank in each lens
| Lens | Standing |
|---|---|
| Balanced | Rank 1,198 of 4,322 |
| First-timer | Rank 790 of 2,132 |
| Career capital | Not ranked: This repository's production-criticality signal is not yet high enough for career-capital ranking. |
| Senior systems | Rank 606 of 1,346 |
| AI-assisted | Rank 1,542 of 4,440 |
The measured parameters
| Parameter | Value | Count | Window | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Response | 31.5633 | 16 | 19 April to 16 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 | 0.6667 | 6 | — | Share of first-time outside authors' decided pull requests that were merged. |
| PR Ghost Rate (14d) | 0.0769 | 13 | 20 April to 17 October 2026 | Share of outside pull requests with no maintainer response, merge or close within 14 days. |
| Time to Merge (p90) | 264.3072 | 14 | 19 April to 16 October 2026 | Hours within which 90% of merged outside pull requests were merged. |
| Dependents | Not shown: Third-party data unavailable | — | — | Packages in the registry that depend on this project, counted once each. |
| OpenSSF Criticality | 0.4576 | — | — | 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 | 3 | 102 | — | 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 | 62.5 | — | — | 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 | 0.2353 | 17 | 19 April to 16 October 2026 | 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 | 0.8 | 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 | 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.
- ben-manes/caffeine (rank 1,189)
- apache/camel (rank 1,194)
- AxonIQ/AxonFramework (rank 1,195)
- JCTools/JCTools (rank 1,205)
- line/armeria (rank 1,214)
Evidence
- Snapshot 2026-10-17, data as of 17 October 2026.
- Record hash:
f0458b7f5f6570dd149435ffc89f3fb7349522ccf134cc6d407f1909af3b3392 - The full record is in data/2026-10-17/repos/8e.json, under the key
stleary/JSON-java. - How every number is measured: Porchlamp methodology.
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