An open-source remote desktop application designed for self-hosting, as an alternative to TeamViewer.
C-Rank Grade: A (Welcoming) - 58/100
External PR Merge Rate: 50%
Response Time: 23h
First Timer Success: 52%
rustdesk/rustdesk has a recorded first-timer success rate of 51.6%. Repositories ranked A typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
Maintainers in rustdesk/rustdesk respond to incoming external pull requests in approximately 22.9 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 58.4 places rustdesk/rustdesk in the A tier.
The external contributor pull request merge rate for rustdesk/rustdesk is 50.1%, based on public PR activity from non-core contributors.
rustdesk/rustdesk 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 07:00 UTC (07:00 UTC in your timezone). Recommended submission window is Wednesday - Friday from 06:00 to 10:00 UTC (06:00 - 10:00 UTC local).
Maintainer Strategy: Maintainer Sweet Spot: PRs under 150 lines merge in ~15 hours (63% approval). Large PRs (>500 lines) take ~110 hours (23% approval). Keep your diff compact for rapid review.
Bug Description On a Linux KDE Plasma 6 Wayland host, RustDesk captures and transmits the screen vertically flipped (the received image is inverted on both axes = rotated 180°: the top panel appears at the bottom, text reads mirrored). This happens on the capture/host side, not the viewer: the flipped image is sent to every client. Key evidence that this is a RustDesk capture bug and not a compositor / GPU / display-configuration problem: The physical host display is correct. kscreen-doctor reports Rotation: 1 (normal) with an identity transform, and the desktop is displayed correctly on the local monitor. OBS Studio captures correctly. OBS uses the same xdg-desktop-portal PipeWire ScreenCast path on the same GPU and shows the desktop upright. This strongly suggests RustDesk's PipeWire consumer is ignoring the buffer's vertical-flip / transform metadata (the SPA_META_VideoTransform / dmabuf y-invert flag) that OBS honors. Two independent clients both show the flip (iOS and Android Ru
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Currently, maintainers of rustdesk/rustdesk acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 22 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 50.1% were successfully merged into the primary branch.
rustdesk/rustdesk has a recorded first-timer success rate of 51.6%. Repositories ranked Welcoming typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
The initial maintainer response time averages ~22 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 58.4 places rustdesk/rustdesk in the Welcoming tier.
The external pull request merge rate is 50.1%. GetMerged isolates non-core community contributions so external developers get an accurate benchmark of PR acceptance probability.
Yes, rustdesk/rustdesk currently has 1 active issue(s) tagged with beginner-friendly labels. You can inspect these directly from the repository issues tab.
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