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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-20 22:16 UTC
dotnet / dotNext
Next generation API for .NET
dotnet/dotNext holds a health index of 83 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Vitality (95/100) and lowest on Engineering Quality (49/100). It was last updated today. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.
83
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.
83
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 70 is calibrated to 83 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).
Ownership
.NET PlatformOrganization · verified domain
23,565 followers280 public repossince Oct 2014
This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.
Package ecosystems
| Registry | Package | Version | Downloads / mo | Versions | Last publish | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | DotNext.IO | 6.10.0 | - | 101 | 7 days ago | iopipeencodingdecodingbufferpipelinesstreamreadstringwritestring |
| NuGet | DotNext.MaintenanceServices | 1.10.0 | - | 17 | 7 days ago | k8skubernetesipcprobeslivenessreadinessstartup |
| NuGet | DotNext.Metaprogramming | 6.10.0 | - | 115 | 7 days ago | metaprogrammingcodegen |
| NuGet | DotNext.Threading | 6.10.0 | - | 130 | 7 days ago | asynclockvaluetaskcompletionsourceleasesievecache |
Metrics by category
Vitality
Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?
95
Development activity
99Exceptional
How it's scored
| 36/36 | Push recency — last push 0 days ago |
| 34.6/36 | Commit cadence — 50/52 weeks with commits |
| 18/18 | Commit volume — 1,195 commits in the last year |
| 10/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
Inputs used
| commits_last_year | 1,195 |
| human_commit_share | 1 |
| days_since_last_push | 0 |
| active_weeks_last_year | 50 |
Release discipline
88Excellent
How it's scored
| 16.2/27 | Ships releases — 16 version tags (no GitHub releases) |
| 36/36 | Release recency — latest release 45 days ago |
| 27/27 | Release cadence — a release every ~8.4 days |
| 0/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data |
Inputs used
| releases_count | 16 |
| latest_release_tag | 6.7.1 |
| releases_from_tags | yes |
| days_since_latest_release | 45 |
| mean_days_between_releases | 8.4 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.
Community & Adoption
Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?
79
Popularity & adoption
81Excellent
How it's scored
| 53.4/60 | Stars — 1,968 stars |
| 18.3/25 | Forks — 157 forks |
| 9.6/15 | Watchers — 54 watchers |
Inputs used
| forks | 157 |
| stars | 1,968 |
| watchers | 54 |
| growth_state | unverified |
| growth_factor_pct | 100 |
| growth_unverified_reason | no_history |
Community health
70Good
How it's scored
| 22.5/22.5 | README |
| 22.5/22.5 | License — recognized license (MIT) |
| 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 | 4 |
| has_contributing | yes |
| has_issue_template | no |
| has_code_of_conduct | no |
| readme_badge_services | dev.azure.com, github.com, shields.io |
| has_pull_request_template | no |
Ecosystem adoption (downloads)
90Excellent
How it's scored
| 72.3/80 | Total downloads — 9,153,778 downloads all-time across nuget |
| 0/20 | Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem |
Inputs used
| packages | DotNext.IO, DotNext.MaintenanceServices, DotNext.Metaprogramming, DotNext.Threading |
| dependents | — |
| ecosystems | nuget |
| total_downloads | 9,153,778 |
| monthly_downloads | — |
| unverified_packages_excluded | — |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.
Sustainability & Governance
Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?
68
Maintainer resilience (bus factor)
26At Risk
How it's scored
| 9/54 | Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| 0.1/22.5 | Commit distribution — top contributor authored 100% of commits |
| 13.5/13.5 | Contributor breadth — 24 contributors |
| 3/10 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3 |
Inputs used
| bus_factor | 1 |
| contributors_sampled | 24 |
| top_contributor_share | 0.997 |
Issue & PR responsiveness
62Moderate
How it's scored
| 41.5/42 | Issue resolution — 99% of issues closed |
| 20.4/30 | PR acceptance — 36/53 decided PRs merged |
| 0/13 | Newcomer PR acceptance — 0/1 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d |
| 0/15 | OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
Inputs used
| merged_prs | 36 |
| open_issues | 2 |
| closed_issues | 159 |
| prs_merged_7d | 0 |
| prs_decided_7d | 0 |
| prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| prs_decided_30d | 1 |
| issue_closed_ratio | 0.988 |
| closed_unmerged_prs | 17 |
| first_time_authors_30d | 1 |
| first_time_prs_merged_30d | 0 |
| first_time_prs_decided_30d | 1 |
Ownership & stewardship
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 30/30 | Ownership backing — organization-owned |
| 20/20 | Verified domain |
| 25/25 | Owner reach — 23,565 followers of dotnet |
| 25/25 | Track record — 280 public repos, account ~12 yr old |
Inputs used
| followers | 23,565 |
| owner_type | Organization |
| is_verified | yes |
| owner_login | dotnet |
| public_repos | 280 |
| account_age_days | 4,393 |
Package maintenance
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 25/25 | Published & resolvable — 4 package(s) on nuget |
| 35/35 | Publish recency — latest publish 7 days ago |
| 20/20 | Version history — 130 published versions |
| 20/20 | Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked |
Inputs used
| packages | DotNext.IO, DotNext.MaintenanceServices, DotNext.Metaprogramming, DotNext.Threading |
| ecosystems | nuget |
| any_deprecated | no |
| min_days_since_publish | 7 |
Engineering Quality
Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?
49
Engineering practices
38Weak
How it's scored
| 24/24 | CI workflows — 1 workflow(s) |
| 0/24 | Tests present |
| 0/16 | Linter config |
| 0/9.6 | Pre-commit hooks |
| 6.4/6.4 | .editorconfig |
| 0/20 | OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — no data |
Inputs used
| has_ci | yes |
| has_tests | no |
| has_editorconfig | yes |
| has_linter_config | no |
| has_precommit_config | no |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests. Remaining weights renormalized.
Documentation
65Good
How it's scored
| 30/30 | README |
| 0/25 | Documentation directory |
| 15/15 | Documentation / homepage site — https://dotnet.github.io/dotNext/ |
| 10/10 | Repository description |
| 10/10 | Topics — 20 topics |
| 0/10 | Wiki |
Inputs used
| topics | reflection, raft, raft-consensus, raft-consensus-algorithm, delegate, csharp, dotnet, dotnext, async, write-ahead-log, async-lock, atomic-operation, fast-reflection, metaprogramming, cluster, dotnetcore, raft-server, hyparview, concurrency, sieve |
| has_wiki | no |
| homepage | https://dotnet.github.io/dotNext/ |
| docs_site | https://dotnet.github.io/dotNext/ |
| has_readme | yes |
| has_docs_dir | no |
| has_description | yes |
Security
Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?
58
Security posture
58Moderate
How it's scored
| 7.5/7.5 | Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo |
| 0/7.5 | Branch-Protection — no data |
| 0/2.5 | CI-Tests — no data |
| 0/2.5 | CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 0/7.5 | Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| 0.8/2.5 | Contributors — project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3 |
| 10/10 | Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 0/7.5 | Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected |
| 0/5 | Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed |
| 2.5/2.5 | License — license file detected |
| 7.5/7.5 | Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| 0/5 | Packaging — no data |
| 0/5 | Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| 5/5 | SAST — SAST tool detected: CodeQL |
| 0/5 | Security-Policy — security policy file not detected |
| 0/7.5 | Signed-Releases — no data |
| 6.8/7.5 | Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 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 | 5.8 |
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, CI-Tests, Packaging, Signed-Releases. 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.
62
Agent context & guidance
62Moderate
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Agent instructions — AGENTS.md |
| 15/15 | Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) — llms.txt served by the project website (https://dotnet.github.io/dotNext/llms.txt) |
| 1.6/40 | Legible commit history — 3 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body) |
Inputs used
| has_llms_txt | yes |
| llms_txt_url | https://dotnet.github.io/dotNext/llms.txt |
| legible_history_share | 0.03 |
| agent_instruction_files | AGENTS.md |
| agent_instruction_max_bytes | 3,749 |
How it's scored
| 12.6/18 | One-command bootstrap — src/DotNext.Aot.Tests/DotNext.Aot.Tests.csproj, src/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL.csproj, src/DotNext.Benchmarks/DotNext.Benchmarks.csproj (toolchain convention, no task runner) |
| 0/22 | Automated tests |
| 0/11 | Lint / format config |
| 11/11 | Static type checking — C# (statically typed) |
| 10/10 | Reproducible environment — devcontainer |
| 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 | no |
| lockfiles | — |
| has_dockerfile | no |
| typed_language | yes |
| bootstrap_files | — |
| has_devcontainer | yes |
| has_linter_config | no |
| typecheck_configs | — |
| agent_commit_share | 0 |
| toolchain_manifests | src/DotNext.Aot.Tests/DotNext.Aot.Tests.csproj, src/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL.csproj, src/DotNext.Benchmarks/DotNext.Benchmarks.csproj, src/DotNext.IO/DotNext.IO.csproj, src/DotNext.MaintenanceServices/DotNext.MaintenanceServices.csproj, src/DotNext.Metaprogramming/DotNext.Metaprogramming.csproj, src/DotNext.Tests/DotNext.Tests.csproj, src/DotNext.Threading/DotNext.Threading.csproj, src/DotNext.Unsafe/DotNext.Unsafe.csproj, src/DotNext/DotNext.csproj, src/cluster/DotNext.AspNetCore.Cluster/DotNext.AspNetCore.Cluster.csproj, src/cluster/DotNext.Net.Cluster/DotNext.Net.Cluster.csproj, src/examples/CommandLineAMI/CommandLineAMI.csproj, src/examples/HyParViewPeer/HyParViewPeer.csproj, src/examples/RaftNode/RaftNode.csproj, src/examples/RandomAccessCacheBenchmark/RandomAccessCacheBenchmark.csproj |
| dependency_bot_commit_share | 0 |
Code legibility for models
100Exceptional
How it's scored
| 45/45 | Type-checkable code — C# (statically typed) |
| 55/55 | Manageable file sizes — 1/1,139 source files over 60KB |
Inputs used
| primary_language | C# |
| largest_source_bytes | 60,226 |
| source_files_sampled | 1,139 |
| oversized_source_files | 1 |
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
1,968GitHub stars
24contributors
1,195commits, last 12 months
0days since last push
16releases
1bus factor
2open issues
—package ecosystems
Data collection warnings
- Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
- No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem
More detail
Star and fork history 0 ★ / 157 ⇿
0Stars
157Forks
16Releases
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 6Patch 10
Each point covers 7 days.
OpenSSF Scorecard 5.8 / 10
5.8aggregate
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).
| 10 | Binary-Artifacts | no binaries found in the repo |
| 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 |
| n/a | CI-Tests | no pull request found |
| 0 | CII-Best-Practices | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| 0 | Code-Review | Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 |
| 3 | Contributors | project has 1 contributing companies or organizations -- score normalized to 3 |
| 10 | Dangerous-Workflow | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| 0 | Dependency-Update-Tool | no update tool detected |
| 0 | Fuzzing | project is not fuzzed |
| 10 | License | license file detected |
| 10 | Maintained | 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| n/a | Packaging | packaging workflow not detected |
| 0 | Pinned-Dependencies | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0 |
| 10 | SAST | SAST tool detected: CodeQL |
| 0 | Security-Policy | security policy file not detected |
| n/a | Signed-Releases | no releases found |
| 9 | Token-Permissions | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| 10 | Vulnerabilities | 0 existing vulnerabilities detected |
Direct dependencies 16
| Registry | Package | Version constraint | Manifest |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | xunit.v3.aot.mtp-v2 | — | src/DotNext.Aot.Tests/DotNext.Aot.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.TrxReport | — | src/DotNext.Aot.Tests/DotNext.Aot.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage | — | src/DotNext.Aot.Tests/DotNext.Aot.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.FASTER.Core | — | src/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL/DotNext.Benchmarks.WAL.csproj |
| NuGet | BenchmarkDotNet | — | src/DotNext.Benchmarks/DotNext.Benchmarks.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream | — | src/DotNext.Benchmarks/DotNext.Benchmarks.csproj |
| NuGet | System.CommandLine | — | src/DotNext.MaintenanceServices/DotNext.MaintenanceServices.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions | — | src/DotNext.MaintenanceServices/DotNext.MaintenanceServices.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions | — | src/DotNext.MaintenanceServices/DotNext.MaintenanceServices.csproj |
| NuGet | xunit.v3.mtp-v2 | — | src/DotNext.Tests/DotNext.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.TrxReport | — | src/DotNext.Tests/DotNext.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage | — | src/DotNext.Tests/DotNext.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | System.Resources.Extensions | — | src/DotNext.Tests/DotNext.Tests.csproj |
| NuGet | Fody | — | src/DotNext/DotNext.csproj |
| NuGet | InlineIL.Fody | — | src/DotNext/DotNext.csproj |
| NuGet | System.IO.Hashing | — | src/DotNext/DotNext.csproj |
All dependencies 17
Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 14 direct and 3 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.
| Registry | Package | Version | Relation |
|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | BenchmarkDotNet | — | direct |
| NuGet | Fody | — | direct |
| NuGet | InlineIL.Fody | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.FASTER.Core | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.IO.RecyclableMemoryStream | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage | — | direct |
| NuGet | Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.TrxReport | — | direct |
| NuGet | System.CommandLine | — | direct |
| NuGet | System.IO.Hashing | — | direct |
| NuGet | System.Resources.Extensions | — | direct |
| NuGet | xunit.v3.aot.mtp-v2 | — | direct |
| NuGet | xunit.v3.mtp-v2 | — | direct |
| NuGet | FastMember.Signed | — | indirect |
| NuGet | Microsoft.AspNetCore.Connections.Abstractions | — | indirect |
| NuGet | System.Runtime.Caching | — | indirect |
Dependency advisories not assessed
Advisory matching could not run for this report: No resolved dependencies carried a version and a supported ecosystem
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