Hack for LA's website
C-Rank Grade: A (Welcoming) - 65/100
External PR Merge Rate: 65%
Response Time: 1d
First Timer Success: 85%
hackforla/website has a recorded first-timer success rate of 84.6%. Repositories ranked A typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
Maintainers in hackforla/website respond to incoming external pull requests in approximately 27.0 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 65.1 places hackforla/website in the A tier.
The external contributor pull request merge rate for hackforla/website is 65.5%, based on public PR activity from non-core contributors.
hackforla/website currently has 38 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 21:00 UTC (21:00 UTC in your timezone). Recommended submission window is Wednesday - Friday from 18:00 to 22:00 UTC (18:00 - 22:00 UTC local).
Maintainer Strategy: Maintainer Sweet Spot: PRs under 150 lines merge in ~18 hours (82% approval). Large PRs (>500 lines) take ~130 hours (29% approval). Keep your diff compact for rapid review.
Prerequisite Be a member of Hack for LA. (There are no fees to join.) If you have not joined yet, please follow the steps on our Getting Started Page. Before you claim or start working on an issue, please make sure you have read our How to Contribute to Hack for LA Guide. Overview We need to populate the 'github-handle' variable with the correct GitHub username for each member of the leadership team. Eventually github-handle will replace the github and picture variables, reducing redundancy in the project file. Action Items Open the file _projects/tdm-calculator.md in the IDE 1 Replace: - name: Abby Rivard github-handle: with - name: Abby Rivard github-handle: abbyrivard Using docker, confirm that the appearance of the project webpage is unchanged at all screen sizes. The project webpage URL can be found below under Resources. For Merge Team Release the dependency for this issue in #8428. If all the dependencies have been completed, follow the Merge Team instructions o
Prerequisite Be a member of Hack for LA. (There are no fees to join.) If you have not joined yet, please follow the steps on our Getting Started Page. Before you claim or start working on an issue, please make sure you have read our How to Contribute to Hack for LA Guide. Overview We need to populate the 'github-handle' variable with the correct GitHub username for each member of the leadership team. Eventually github-handle will replace the github and picture variables, reducing redundancy in the project file. Action Items Open the file _projects/tdm-calculator.md in the IDE 1 Replace: - name: Melissa Perry github-handle: with - name: Melissa Perry github-handle: melissaperry09 Using docker, confirm that the appearance of the project webpage is unchanged at all screen sizes. The project webpage URL can be found below under Resources. For Merge Team Release the dependency for this issue in #8428. If all the dependencies have been completed, follow the Merge Team instru
Prerequisite Be a member of Hack for LA. (There are no fees to join.) If you have not joined yet, please follow the steps on our Getting Started Page. Before you claim or start working on an issue, please make sure you have read our How to Contribute to Hack for LA Guide. Overview We need to populate the 'github-handle' variable with the correct GitHub username for each member of the leadership team. Eventually github-handle will replace the github and picture variables, reducing redundancy in the project file. Action Items Open the file _projects/tdm-calculator.md in the IDE 1 Replace: - name: Marlena Mellody Khim-Sai github-handle: with - name: Marlena Mellody Khim-Sai github-handle: marlenamellody Using docker, confirm that the appearance of the project webpage is unchanged at all screen sizes. The project webpage URL can be found below under Resources. For Merge Team Release the dependency for this issue in #8428. If all the dependencies have been completed, follow
Prerequisite Be a member of Hack for LA. (There are no fees to join.) If you have not joined yet, please follow the steps on our Getting Started Page. Before you claim or start working on an issue, please make sure you have read our How to Contribute to Hack for LA Guide. Overview We need to populate the 'github-handle' variable with the correct GitHub username for each member of the leadership team. Eventually github-handle will replace the github and picture variables, reducing redundancy in the project file. Action Items Open the file _projects/tdm-calculator.md in the IDE 1 Replace: - name: Heejung Hong github-handle: with - name: Heejung Hong github-handle: heejung-hong Using docker, confirm that the appearance of the project webpage is unchanged at all screen sizes. The project webpage URL can be found below under Resources. For Merge Team Release the dependency for this issue in #8428. If all the dependencies have been completed, follow the Merge Team instructio
Prerequisite Be a member of Hack for LA. (There are no fees to join.) If you have not joined yet, please follow the steps on our Getting Started Page. Before you claim or start working on an issue, please make sure you have read our How to Contribute to Hack for LA Guide. Overview We need to populate the 'github-handle' variable with the correct GitHub username for each member of the leadership team. Eventually github-handle will replace the github and picture variables, reducing redundancy in the project file. Action Items Open the file _projects/tdm-calculator.md in the IDE 1 Replace: - name: Nilakshi Sahai github-handle: with - name: Nilakshi Sahai github-handle: NilakshiS Using docker, confirm that the appearance of the project webpage is unchanged at all screen sizes. The project webpage URL can be found below under Resources. For Merge Team Release the dependency for this issue in #8428. If all the dependencies have been completed, follow the Merge Team instructi
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When evaluating whether to contribute to hackforla/website, 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 hackforla/website acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 1 days+. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 65.5% were successfully merged into the primary branch.
hackforla/website has a recorded first-timer success rate of 84.6%. Repositories ranked Welcoming typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
The initial maintainer response time averages ~1 days+. 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 65.1 places hackforla/website in the Welcoming tier.
The external pull request merge rate is 65.5%. GetMerged isolates non-core community contributions so external developers get an accurate benchmark of PR acceptance probability.
Yes, hackforla/website currently has 38 active issue(s) tagged with beginner-friendly labels. You can inspect these directly from the repository issues tab.
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