# dash-project/dash — health index 28/100 (Critical)

> Inspection of the public repository dash-project/dash by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 28 out of 100, placing it in the Critical band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/dash-project/dash
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/dash-project/dash
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/dash-project/dash/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/d/dash-project/dash.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-27
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.27.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 17/100 | Critical |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 61/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 66/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 54/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 37/100 | At risk |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 49/100 | At risk |

Abandonment Policy applies a 60% multiplier to weighted overall health and gives it a ceiling of 49.

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | DASH, the C++ Template Library for Distributed Data Structures with Support for Hierarchical Locality for HPC and Data-Driven Science |
| Homepage | http://www.dash-project.org/ |
| Primary language | C++ |
| Stars | 164 |
| Forks | 48 |
| Created | 2015-11-10 |
| Last push | 2021-07-23 |
| Latest release | v0.3.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 0 |
| Bus factor | 2 |
| Topics | hpc, pgas, mpi, data-structures, high-performance-computing, shmem, c-plus-plus, algorithms, parallel-computing |

## Vitality — 17/100 (Critical)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 1/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | not met | 0 / 36 | last push 1829 days ago |
| Commit cadence | not met | 0 / 36 | 0/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | not met | 0 / 18 | 0 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | not met | 0 / 10 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |

### Release discipline — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 3 releases published |
| Release recency | not met | 0 / 36 | latest release 2816 days ago |
| Release cadence | partial | 12.6 / 27 | a release every ~123.9 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 10 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |

### Abandonment — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | partial | 60 / 100 | no human commit for 1915 days; 4 unmet obligation(s): pull requests unanswered, issues unanswered, releases stalled, Scorecard reports it unmaintained |

## Community & Adoption — 61/100 (Moderate)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 58/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 35.9 / 60 | 164 stars |
| Forks | partial | 13.9 / 25 | 48 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 7.7 / 15 | 25 watchers |

### Community health — 64/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | partial | 16.9 / 22.5 | license file present, not a recognized license |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | not met | 0 / 6.3 | — |

## Sustainability & Governance — 66/100 (Moderate)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 25.2 / 54 | 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 11.8 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 48% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 23 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 83/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 32.3 / 46.8 | 69% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 35.6 / 38.2 | 376/404 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 56/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 5.6 / 25 | 5 followers of dash-project |
| Track record | partial | 20.3 / 25 | 13 public repos, account ~10 yr old |

## Engineering Quality — 54/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 24/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | not met | 0 / 24 | — |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | not met | 0 / 20 | 0 out of 8 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |

### Documentation — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | http://www.dash-project.org/ |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 9 topics |
| Wiki | met | 10 / 10 | — |

## Security — 37/100 (At risk)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 37/100 (At risk)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | partial | 6.8 / 7.5 | binaries present in source code |
| Branch-Protection | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | 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 |
| CI-Tests | not met | 0 / 2.5 | 0 out of 8 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 0 |
| CII-Best-Practices | partial | 1.2 / 2.5 | badge detected: Passing |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 15 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | excluded | 0 / 10 | no workflows found |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | not met | 0 / 7.5 | no update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | partial | 2.2 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| SAST | not met | 0 / 5 | SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 |
| Security-Policy | not met | 0 / 5 | security policy file not detected |
| Signed-Releases | not met | 0 / 7.5 | Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases. |
| Token-Permissions | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | No tokens found |
| Vulnerabilities | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 49/100 (At risk)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 12/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | partial | 11.7 / 40 | 22 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 61/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | met | 18 / 18 | 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 |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | C++ (statically typed) |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | not met | 0 / 10 | no agent-authored commits among the last 100 |
| Automated maintenance | not met | 0 / 8 | no automated dependency updates observed |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | not met | 0 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | C++ (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.7 / 55 | 3/560 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 40/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## 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

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