Outline Client and Manager. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
C-Rank Grade: A (Welcoming) - 59/100
External PR Merge Rate: 7%
Response Time: 2h
First Timer Success: 33%
OutlineFoundation/outline-apps has a recorded first-timer success rate of 33.3%. Repositories ranked A typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
Maintainers in OutlineFoundation/outline-apps respond to incoming external pull requests in approximately 2.0 hours on average. Keeping PRs focused on single tasks and ensuring tests pass helps maintainers review faster.
The C-Rank™ system evaluates GitHub projects on a 0–100 scale using real data: PR merge rates, review turnaround time, active maintainer presence, and first-time contributor success. A score of 58.5 places OutlineFoundation/outline-apps in the A tier.
The external contributor pull request merge rate for OutlineFoundation/outline-apps is 6.7%, based on public PR activity from non-core contributors.
OutlineFoundation/outline-apps currently has 1 active issue(s) tagged with beginner-friendly labels like "good first issue", "beginner", or "up-for-grabs".
Outline Client and Manager. Outline Manager makes it easy to create your own VPN server. Outline Client lets you share access to your VPN with anyone in your network, giving them access to the free and open internet.
Active maintainer team in OutlineFoundation/outline-apps welcoming community pull requests and bug fixes.
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Application Outline Client Describe the bug On Android, the native VPN service keeps its own copy of the last successfully connected server (id, name and full transport config) in SharedPreferences via VpnTunnelStore, so it can restart the tunnel from the Quick Settings tile, on boot, or for always-on VPN. Nothing ever removes that entry. Disconnecting only flips the stored status to DISCONNECTED (VpnTunnelService.tearDownActiveTunnel), and VpnTunnelStore.clear() has no callers in the Android code. Forgetting a server in the app disconnects it, drops it from the web-side server list, and calls the native EraseServiceStorage method, but on Android that only deletes the Go backend's per-service files (client/go/outline/method_channel.go, handleEraseServiceStorage). The Java tunnel store is never touched. As a result, the Quick Settings tile (added in #2767, declared for the Capacitor app in #2868) only checks that a stored tunnel exists and that VPN permission is granted, then starts the
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When evaluating whether to contribute to OutlineFoundation/outline-apps, response velocity and maintainer engagement are crucial. GetMerged continuously tracks pull request trajectories, first-comment latency, and code review rounds to help developers avoid submitting pull requests to backlogged repositories.
Currently, maintainers of OutlineFoundation/outline-apps acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 2 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 6.7% were successfully merged into the primary branch.
OutlineFoundation/outline-apps has a recorded first-timer success rate of 33.3%. Repositories ranked Welcoming typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
The initial maintainer response time averages ~2 hours. Keeping PRs scoped to single concerns and ensuring CI checks succeed will optimize review turnaround.
The C-Rank™ index scores repositories on a 0 to 100 scale using an objective formula: external PR merge rates, initial response speed, active maintainer count, and first-time contributor retention. A score of 58.5 places OutlineFoundation/outline-apps in the Welcoming tier.
The external pull request merge rate is 6.7%. GetMerged isolates non-core community contributions so external developers get an accurate benchmark of PR acceptance probability.
Yes, OutlineFoundation/outline-apps currently has 1 active issue(s) tagged with beginner-friendly labels. You can inspect these directly from the repository issues tab.
All metrics displayed for OutlineFoundation/outline-apps are automatically retrieved via the public GitHub API and recalculated daily. Insider pull requests submitted by repository owners or organization members are excluded from merge rate calculations to preserve objective external contributor statistics.