Ranked by how they treat first pull requests
The most beginner-friendly Objective-C open source projects
Projects that merge pull requests from outside contributors and answer them quickly: the two things a newcomer cannot see before sending one.
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1. Sequel-Ace/Sequel-Ace Objective-C
MySQL/MariaDB database management for macOS
47% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 1 day
1 open beginner issue 7,537 stars
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2. noah-nuebling/mac-mouse-fix Objective-C
Mac Mouse Fix - Make Your $10 Mouse Better Than an Apple Trackpad!
0% of outside PRs merged Maintainers usually reply within 7 days
5 open beginner issues 11,006 stars
How this ranking works
Score = merge rate × reply speed. The merge rate is the share of pull requests from outside contributors (anyone who is not an owner, member or collaborator of the project, bots excluded) merged in the last 30 days, smoothed as (merged + 1) ÷ (sent + 2) so a few lucky merges do not outrank a long record. The reply speed is 1 ÷ (1 + the median number of days before a pull request gets its first reply from someone other than its author, or is merged). Bot comments do not count as replies.
Listed: projects with at least 10 outside pull requests in that window, at least one open beginner issue, at least 10 stars, a push in the last 180 days, not archived, and measured in the last 30 days.