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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-14 01:06 UTC
dash-project / dash
DASH, the C++ Template Library for Distributed Data Structures with Support for Hierarchical Locality for HPC and Data-Driven Science
dash-project/dash holds a health index of 28 out of 100, placing it in the At Risk band. It scores highest on Sustainability & Governance (66/100) and lowest on Vitality (17/100). It was last updated 1878 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.
28
overall / 100Software health index
Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.
28
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
Score profile
Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.
The weighted overall 48 is calibrated to 47 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
DASHOrganization
6 followers13 public repossince Sep 2015
This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.
Metrics by category
Vitality
Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?
17
Development activity
1Critical
Abandonment alert
Work has arrived and nobody has attended to it
no human commit in 1964 daysautomated commits excludedpull requests left unansweredissues left unansweredreleases stalledOpenSSF Scorecard reports it unmaintainedOverall rating: At Risk ceiling
Silence alone is never the finding — a small, finished library may need no commits for years. This alert requires both: no human commit for a long time, and obligations the project is visibly not discharging. Automated commits do not count as maintenance.
How abandonment is assessedHow it's scored
| 0/36 | Push recency — last push 1,878 days ago |
| 0/36 | Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits |
| 0/18 | Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 0 |
| human_commit_share | 1 |
| days_since_last_push | 1,878 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 0 |
Release discipline
40Weak
How it's scored
| 27/27 | Ships releases — 3 releases published |
| 0/36 | Release recency — latest release 2,865 days ago |
| 12.6/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~123.9 days |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 3 |
| latest_release_tag | v0.3.0 |
| releases_from_tags | no |
| days_since_latest_release | 2,865 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 123.9 |
Community & Adoption
Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?
61
Popularity & adoption
58Moderate
How it's scored
| 35.9/60 | Stars — 164 stars |
| 13.9/25 | Forks — 48 forks |
| 7.7/15 | Watchers — 25 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 48 |
| stars | 164 |
| watchers | 25 |
| growth_state | unverified |
| growth_factor_pct | 100 |
| growth_unverified_reason | no_history |
Community health
64Moderate
How it's scored
| 22.5/22.5 | README |
| 16.9/22.5 | License — license file present, not a recognized license |
| 18/18 | CONTRIBUTING guide |
| 0/13.5 | Code of conduct |
| 0/7.2 | Issue template |
| 0/6.3 | PR template |
Inputs used
| has_readme | yes |
| has_license | yes |
| readme_badges | 5 |
| has_contributing | yes |
| has_issue_template | no |
| has_code_of_conduct | no |
| readme_badge_services | bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org, circleci.com, codecov.io, readthedocs.org, travis-ci.org |
| has_pull_request_template | no |
Sustainability & Governance
Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?
66
Maintainer resilience (bus factor)
60Moderate
How it's scored
| 25.2/54 | Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 11.8/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 48% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 23 contributors |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 2 |
| contributors_sampled | 23 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.476 |
Issue & PR responsiveness
83Excellent
How it's scored
| 29/42 | Issue resolution — 69% of issues closed |
| 27.9/30 | PR acceptance — 376/404 decided PRs merged |
| 0/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d |
| 15/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 376 |
| open_issues | 89 |
| closed_issues | 198 |
| prs_merged_7d | 0 |
| prs_decided_7d | 0 |
| prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| prs_decided_30d | 0 |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.69 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 28 |
| first_time_authors_30d | 0 |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | 0 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.
Ownership & stewardship
56Moderate
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 0/20 | Verified domain |
| 6.1/25 | Owner reach — 6 followers of dash-project |
| 20.3/25 | Track record — 13 public repos, account ~11 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 6 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | no |
| owner_login | dash-project |
| public_repos | 13 |
| account_age_days | 4,024 |
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
54
Engineering practices
24At Risk
How it's scored
| 0/24 | CI workflows |
| 24/24 | Tests present |
| 0/16 | Linter config |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 0/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 0/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 0 out of 8 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| has_ci | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| has_editorconfig | no |
| has_linter_config | no |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Documentation
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 25/25 | Documentation directory |
| 15/15 | Documentation / homepage site — http://www.dash-project.org/ |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 9 topics |
| 10/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | hpc, pgas, mpi, data-structures, high-performance-computing, shmem, c-plus-plus, algorithms, parallel-computing |
| has_wiki | yes |
| homepage | http://www.dash-project.org/ |
| docs_site | http://www.dash-project.org/ |
| has_readme | yes |
| has_docs_dir | yes |
| has_description | yes |
Security
Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?
37
Security posture
37Weak
How it's scored
| 6.8/7.5 | Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code |
| 0/7.5 | Branch-Protection — no data |
| 0/2.5 | CI-Tests — 0 out of 8 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
| 1.2/2.5 | CII-Best-Practices — badge detected: Passing |
| 7.5/7.5 | Code-Review — all changesets reviewed |
| 2.5/2.5 | Contributors — project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |
| 0/10 | Dangerous-Workflow — no data |
| 0/7.5 | Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected |
| 0/5 | Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed |
| 2.2/2.5 | License — license file detected |
| 0/7.5 | Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 0/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0/5 | SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0/5 | Security-Policy — security policy file not detected |
| 0/7.5 | Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| 0/7.5 | Token-Permissions — no data |
| 7.5/7.5 | Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Inputs used
| source | openssf_scorecard |
| checks_evaluated | 14 |
| scorecard_version | v5.5.0 |
| checks_inconclusive | 4 |
| scorecard_aggregate | 3.7 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.
AI Readiness
How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.
58
Agent context & guidance
12Critical
How it's scored
| 0/45 | Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| 0/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) |
| 11.7/40 | Legible commit history — 22 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | no |
| llms_txt_url | — |
| legible_history_share | 0.22 |
| agent_instruction_files | — |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | — |
Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)
61Moderate
How it's scored
| 18/18 | One-command bootstrap — dart-if/Makefile, dart-if/include/dash/dart/if/Makefile, dart-if/next/dash/dart/if/Makefile, dart-if/spec/Makefile, dart-impl/mpi/Makefile, dart-impl/mpi/src/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/include/dash/dart/shmem/sysv/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/src/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.01.hello/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.02.barrier/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.03.groups/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.04.sendrecv/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.05.bcast/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.06.teams-leak/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.06.teams/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.07.memalloc/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.08.get/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.09.distarray/Makefile, dash/Makefile, dash/examples/Makefile, dash/examples/app.01.mindeg/Makefile, dash/examples/app.01.mindeg/orig/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.01.igups/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.02.memhog/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.02.meminit/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.03.gups/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.03.gups/sequential/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.04.histo-tf/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.04.histo/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.05.pattern/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.06.jacobi-1d/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.min-element/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.min-element/run/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.transform/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.09.multi-reader/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.09.multi-reader/run/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.10.summa/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.01.hello-mpi/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.01.hello/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-copy/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-csr/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-ctors/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-delayed/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-local/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.halo-swap/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix.halo.heat_equation/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_distribution_patterns/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_global_access/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_printed_in_different_ways/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_views/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.unordered_map/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.03.globref/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.04.memalloc/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.05.min_element/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.pattern-block-visualizer/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.pattern-visualizer/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.std-algo/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-group/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-split/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-threads/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.08.io-hdf5-stream/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.08.io-hdf5/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.10.psort/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.10.radixsort/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.11.halo-stencil/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.11.simple-stencil/Makefile, dash/src/Makefile, dash/test/Makefile |
| 22/22 | Automated tests |
| 0/11 | Lint / format config |
| 11/11 | Static type checking — C++ (statically typed) |
| 10/10 | Reproducible environment — Dockerfile |
| 0/10 | Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| 0/8 | Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| has_nix | no |
| has_tests | yes |
| lockfiles | — |
| has_dockerfile | yes |
| typed_language | yes |
| bootstrap_files | dart-if/Makefile, dart-if/include/dash/dart/if/Makefile, dart-if/next/dash/dart/if/Makefile, dart-if/spec/Makefile, dart-impl/mpi/Makefile, dart-impl/mpi/src/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/include/dash/dart/shmem/sysv/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/src/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.01.hello/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.02.barrier/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.03.groups/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.04.sendrecv/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.05.bcast/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.06.teams-leak/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.06.teams/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.07.memalloc/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.08.get/Makefile, dart-impl/shmem/test/test.09.distarray/Makefile, dash/Makefile, dash/examples/Makefile, dash/examples/app.01.mindeg/Makefile, dash/examples/app.01.mindeg/orig/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.01.igups/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.02.memhog/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.02.meminit/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.03.gups/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.03.gups/sequential/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.04.histo-tf/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.04.histo/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.05.pattern/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.06.jacobi-1d/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.min-element/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.min-element/run/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.08.transform/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.09.multi-reader/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.09.multi-reader/run/Makefile, dash/examples/bench.10.summa/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.01.hello-mpi/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.01.hello/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-copy/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-csr/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-ctors/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-delayed/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array-local/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.array/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.halo-swap/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix.halo.heat_equation/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_distribution_patterns/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_global_access/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_printed_in_different_ways/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.matrix_views/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.02.unordered_map/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.03.globref/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.04.memalloc/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.05.min_element/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.pattern-block-visualizer/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.pattern-visualizer/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.06.std-algo/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-group/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-split/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality-threads/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.07.locality/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.08.io-hdf5-stream/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.08.io-hdf5/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.10.psort/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.10.radixsort/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.11.halo-stencil/Makefile, dash/examples/ex.11.simple-stencil/Makefile, dash/src/Makefile, dash/test/Makefile |
| has_devcontainer | no |
| has_linter_config | no |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | 0 |
| toolchain_manifests | — |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Code legibility for models
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Type-checkable code — C++ (statically typed) |
| 54.7/55 | Manageable file sizes — 3/560 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | C++ |
| largest_source_bytes | 74,114 |
| source_files_sampled | 560 |
| oversized_source_files | 3 |
Machine-readable interfaces
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 0/40 | API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) — not applicable to this kind of software |
| 0/20 | MCP server — not applicable to this kind of software |
| 40/40 | Runnable examples — examples |
Inputs used
| example_dirs | examples |
| has_mcp_signal | no |
| api_schema_files | — |
| interfaces_expected_of | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto), MCP server. Remaining weights renormalized.
Key facts
164GitHub stars
23contributors
0commits, last 12 months
1,878days since last push
3releases
2bus factor
89open issues
—package ecosystems
Data collection warnings
- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository
More detail
Star and fork history 0 ★ / 48 ⇿
0Stars
48Forks
3Releases
When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.
Major 0Minor 1Patch 0
Each point covers 9 days.
OpenSSF Scorecard 3.7 / 10
3.7aggregate
Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).
| 9 | Binary-Artifacts | binaries present in source code |
| n/a | Branch-Protection | internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md |
| 0 | CI-Tests | 0 out of 8 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
| 5 | CII-Best-Practices | badge detected: Passing |
| 10 | Code-Review | all changesets reviewed |
| 10 | Contributors | project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |
| n/a | Dangerous-Workflow | no workflows found |
| 0 | Dependency-Update-Tool | no update tool detected |
| 0 | Fuzzing | project is not fuzzed |
| 9 | License | license file detected |
| 0 | Maintained | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 0 | Pinned-Dependencies | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0 | SAST | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0 | Security-Policy | security policy file not detected |
| 0 | Signed-Releases | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| n/a | Token-Permissions | No tokens found |
| 10 | Vulnerabilities | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
All dependencies not collected
The resolved dependency set could not be collected for this report: GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository
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Feedback
Spotted something off in this report, or have thoughts to share? Wrong measurements, missed tooling, ideas, questions — anything is welcome. Every message is read and gets a response.
Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.
Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.
How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics.