FiloSottile/mkcert

Maintenance

Dormant

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

0

Human commits, 365 days

0

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Apr 18, 2024 (2 years ago)

Last human commit

Apr 18, 2024 (2 years ago)

Authors, 90 days

0

Last release

Apr 26, 2022 (4 years ago)

Median PR merge time

28 hours

Responsiveness: of 14 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

100 since Aug 19, 2018

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

9

Contributors

37

Top committers

• FiloSottile: 67% of commits
• adamdecaf: 4% of commits
• arp242: 2% of commits
• dennisameling: 2% of commits
• Christian Rebischke: 1% of commits

• No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2018-08-19T22:47:48Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Aug 13, 2018 to Aug 17, 2018: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 1.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 26, 2018 to Oct 27, 2018: about 120 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 6, 2019 to Jan 25, 2019: about 4.7k more stars than usual, peak 1.5k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Nov 10, 2019 to Nov 12, 2019: about 258 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Dec 11, 2019 to Dec 12, 2019: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 26, 2021 to Jan 28, 2021: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 23, 2021 to May 29, 2021: about 756 more stars than usual, peak 318 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 6, 2021 to Sep 8, 2021: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 17, 2022 to Mar 18, 2022: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 31, 2022 to Nov 4, 2022: about 576 more stars than usual, peak 422 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Nov 6, 2022 to Nov 8, 2022: about 107 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 22, 2023 to Oct 24, 2023: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 20, 2024 to Mar 21, 2024: about 120 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 21, 2024 to May 25, 2024: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 10, 2024 to Jul 12, 2024: about 307 more stars than usual, peak 210 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 12, 2024 to Nov 20, 2024: about 786 more stars than usual, peak 219 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 4, 2024 to Dec 5, 2024: about 229 more stars than usual, peak 223 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 29, 2025 to Jan 31, 2025: about 185 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jul 20, 2025 to Jul 22, 2025: about 469 more stars than usual, peak 284 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 11, 2025 to Aug 18, 2025: about 865 more stars than usual, peak 297 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

• Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
• 7 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.3 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

A year ago

BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

Packages

• filippo.io/mkcert (GO): latest v1.4.4, published Apr 26, 2022
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: FiloSottile/mkcert, deps.dev: Go filippo.io/mkcert