Ask five developers what makes a good first open-source project and you will hear five different weightings. Porchlamp makes that explicit: it scores every project on five pillars, and what you see depends on how those pillars are weighted. This post reads the list a newcomer actually sees: what the first-timer lens weighs, which projects come out on top, and what the caveats beside each row mean. What the lens weighs The five pillars are Responsiveness, Criticality, Governanc...