Kong/kong

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

11

Human commits, 90 days

15

Human commits, 365 days

35

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

7

Last release

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Median PR merge time

18 hours

Responsiveness: of 22 recent issues, 9% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

35 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

3

Authors for 80% of commits

6

Contributors

335

Top committers

• outsinre: 29% of commits
• iAklis: 14% of commits
• AndyZhang0707: 11% of commits
• STARRY-S: 11% of commits
• Water-Melon: 11% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Apr 28, 2015 to May 15, 2015: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 358 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Feb 23, 2016 to Feb 23, 2016: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 20, 2018 to Sep 21, 2018: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 13, 2019 to Jun 14, 2019: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 18, 2020 to Jul 18, 2020: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 21, 2021 to May 22, 2021: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jun 16, 2022 to Jun 17, 2022: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 4, 2023 to Jul 7, 2023: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jul 28, 2023 to Jul 30, 2023: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 25, 2024 to Jan 26, 2024: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 17, 2024 to Mar 19, 2024: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 29, 2024 to May 31, 2024: about 173 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 13, 2025 to Feb 14, 2025: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 2 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.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: Kong/kong