NixOS/nixpkgs
Nix Packages collection & NixOS
26.5k stars · 20.4k forks · Nix
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 90 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
- 16.2k
- Human commits, 90 days
- 50.1k
- Human commits, 365 days
- 197.9k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 7%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (8 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (8 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 90
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 32% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 10 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
- 465 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 5
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 22
- Contributors
- Too many for GitHub to count
Top committers
- r-ryantm: 16% of commits
- pbsds: 15% of commits
- NickCao: 10% of commits
- ShadowRZ: 5% of commits
- SuperSandro2000: 4% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 28, 2014 to Oct 29, 2014: about 29 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Jan 4, 2015 to Jan 4, 2015: about 15 more stars than usual, peak 15 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 15, 2024 to Feb 16, 2024: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 3, 2024 to Mar 4, 2024: about 70 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
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
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: NixOS/nixpkgs
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Computed 8 hours ago · method 2026.10.2