Protocol Buffers

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Overview

HEALTH SCORE

Healthy

78out of 100

Solid maintainer coverage and development cadence. Security posture keeps the score from reaching Excellent.

LIFECYCLE

Active

Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.

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Health breakdown

Healthy(78/100)

Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.

Maintainer responsiveness

Median response time is 3 days.

Bus factor

54 active maintainers currently have merge rights.

Organization Diversity

Contributors span 782 organizations.

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About

Protocol Buffers is a language-agnostic, platform-neutral extensible mechanism for serializing structured data. It's a method of encoding structured data in an efficient yet extensible format, developed by Google. Protocol Buffers can be used to create services and APIs, define message formats, and enable communication between different systems and programming languages.

First commit

July 2008

Software value

$41M