Social reading and reviewing, decentralized with ActivityPub
C-Rank Grade: A (Welcoming) - 69/100
External PR Merge Rate: 81%
Response Time: 9h
First Timer Success: 56%
bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm has a recorded first-timer success rate of 55.6%. Repositories ranked A typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
Maintainers in bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm respond to incoming external pull requests in approximately 9.0 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 68.6 places bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm in the A tier.
The external contributor pull request merge rate for bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm is 81.3%, based on public PR activity from non-core contributors.
bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm currently has 1 active issue(s) tagged with beginner-friendly labels like "good first issue", "beginner", or "up-for-grabs".
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Maintainers are most responsive around 20:00 UTC (20:00 UTC in your timezone). Recommended submission window is Monday - Wednesday from 19:00 to 23:00 UTC (19:00 - 23:00 UTC local).
Maintainer Strategy: Maintainer Sweet Spot: PRs under 150 lines merge in ~6 hours (96% approval). Large PRs (>500 lines) take ~43 hours (37% approval). Keep your diff compact for rapid review.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When making a post on Bookwyrm (a review, adding a book to my shelf, etc) I'd like to use some formatting, but I don't know what formatting is supported. Describe the solution you'd like Add a little annotation under the text box describing what formatting is supported, like "Bookwyrm supports CommonMark" or something. (I don't know if you actually support CommonMark, but clearly some kind of markdown is supported.) If it needs a little more explanation, you could have a click to expand section or a link to a formatting page. Describe alternatives you've considered I haven't really considered alternatives to this, because it's a standard and user friendly way to inform users of their formatting options. Additional context None.
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When evaluating whether to contribute to bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm, 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 bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 9 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 81.3% were successfully merged into the primary branch.
bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm has a recorded first-timer success rate of 55.6%. Repositories ranked Welcoming typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
The initial maintainer response time averages ~9 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 68.6 places bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm in the Welcoming tier.
The external pull request merge rate is 81.3%. GetMerged isolates non-core community contributions so external developers get an accurate benchmark of PR acceptance probability.
Yes, bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm 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 bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm 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.