Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

26.5k stars · 1k forks · QML

At risk

At risk: one person wrote most commits, and no one has committed by hand in 90 days.

Why

One person wrote 94% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)
GitHub found no license file, so the code is not clearly licensed for reuse. (source 1)

What would change this

A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.
A license file is added.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 71
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: May 31, 2026 (4 months ago)
Last human commit: May 31, 2026 (4 months ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: May 31, 2026 (4 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 22 days

Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 71 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 60

Top committers

Swordfish90: 94% of commits
DavDood: 3% of commits
code807: 1% of commits
orlevyhs: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jul 29, 2014 to Aug 8, 2014: about 875 more stars than usual, peak 375 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 12, 2014 to Aug 18, 2014: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 1, 2014 to Oct 7, 2014: about 727 more stars than usual, peak 379 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.
Feb 23, 2015 to Feb 27, 2015: about 450 more stars than usual, peak 308 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jul 4, 2016 to Jul 7, 2016: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 28, 2017 to Nov 8, 2017: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 316 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a new release.
Jun 27, 2018 to Jun 29, 2018: about 226 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 4, 2019 to Nov 5, 2019: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 18, 2020 to Sep 19, 2020: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 28, 2020 to Sep 29, 2020: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 24, 2021 to Mar 25, 2021: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 20, 2022 to Mar 23, 2022: about 344 more stars than usual, peak 252 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jun 30, 2022 to Jul 1, 2022: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 18, 2022 to Aug 21, 2022: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 8, 2022 to Nov 9, 2022: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 20, 2023 to Jul 25, 2023: about 746 more stars than usual, peak 531 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.
Nov 15, 2023 to Nov 17, 2023: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 13, 2024 to Apr 17, 2024: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 9, 2024 to May 10, 2024: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 21, 2025 to Jan 22, 2025: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 24, 2025 to Nov 27, 2025: about 407 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
Sep 11, 2026 to Sep 15, 2026: about 372 more stars than usual, peak 184 in one day, a shape we can't classify. 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

Complete

Flags

Warning: GitHub finds no license for this repository, so default copyright rules apply and no reuse is granted. Details
Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: No license found
A year ago: Not known

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: At risk
Oct 14, 2026: At risk

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