Homebrew/brew
🍺 The Package Manager for Everywhere
50k stars · 11.4k forks · Ruby
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 43 people, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 447
- Human commits, 90 days
- 2k
- Human commits, 365 days
- 5.8k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 8%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 43
- Last release
- Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 5 hours
Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 2 hours.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
- Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 460 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 9
- Contributors
- 373
Top committers
- MikeMcQuaid: 47% of commits
- p-linnane: 19% of commits
- rawsun007: 3% of commits
- cho-m: 2% of commits
- krehel: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 10, 2016 to Apr 27, 2016: about 384 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Sep 21, 2016 to Sep 23, 2016: about 228 more stars than usual, peak 125 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.
- Jun 25, 2020 to Jun 25, 2020: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 73 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 17, 2020 to Nov 24, 2020: about 219 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 5, 2021 to Feb 8, 2021: about 815 more stars than usual, peak 487 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
- Sep 13, 2026 to Sep 16, 2026: about 142 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 4 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.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- BSD-2-Clause (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- BSD-2-Clause (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: Homebrew/brew
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2