TencentARC/GFPGAN

GFPGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for Real-world Face Restoration.

37.7k stars · 6.3k forks · Python

Avoid

Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.

Why

No human commits since April 2024, and only 0 of 11 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
One person wrote 90% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

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 2, 2024 (2 years ago)
Last human commit: Apr 2, 2024 (2 years ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: Sep 16, 2022 (4 years ago)
Median PR merge time: 16 hours

Responsiveness: of 11 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

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 100 since May 18, 2021
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 11

Top committers

xinntao: 90% of commits
AK391: 1% of commits
amckenna41: 1% of commits
bramton: 1% of commits
chenxwh: 1% of commits

No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2021-05-18T12:56:37Z.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 25, 2021: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a new release.
Jul 12, 2021 to Jul 20, 2021: about 490 more stars than usual, peak 134 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 24, 2021 to Sep 19, 2021: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 391 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 2, 2021 to Jan 11, 2022: about 11.8k more stars than usual, peak 1.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Mar 6, 2022 to Mar 23, 2022: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 176 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 28, 2022 to Aug 10, 2022: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 30, 2022 to Sep 1, 2022: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 12, 2022 to Nov 15, 2022: about 262 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 3, 2023 to Jan 5, 2023: about 119 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 20, 2023 to Feb 21, 2023: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
May 28, 2023 to May 31, 2023: about 296 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 17, 2023 to Jul 18, 2023: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 21, 2023 to Aug 29, 2023: about 769 more stars than usual, peak 193 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 25, 2024 to Jan 28, 2024: about 181 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 20, 2024 to Aug 21, 2024: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 12, 2026 to Jul 14, 2026: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 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

Complete

Flags

Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.5 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

gfpgan (PYPI): latest 1.3.8, published Sep 16, 2022
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.5 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: TencentARC/GFPGAN, deps.dev: PyPI gfpgan

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Oct 13, 2026: Avoid

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