TryGhost/Ghost

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

1k

Human commits, 90 days

2.1k

Human commits, 365 days

6.1k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

7%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (17 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

31

Last release

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Median PR merge time

under an hour

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 92% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 37 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

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

464 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

7

Contributors

369

Top committers

• 9larsons: 40% of commits
• EvanHahn: 13% of commits
• acburdine: 9% of commits
• ErisDS: 9% of commits
• rob-ghost: 5% of commits

• Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Oct 14, 2013 to Nov 17, 2013: about 5.1k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Aug 11, 2014 to Aug 14, 2014: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 27, 2017 to Aug 2, 2017: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 16, 2018 to May 18, 2018: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 26, 2018 to Aug 10, 2018: about 623 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 21, 2018 to Aug 24, 2018: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 63 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 22, 2019 to Oct 28, 2019: about 203 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 16, 2021 to Mar 26, 2021: about 232 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 24, 2021 to Sep 26, 2021: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 2, 2022 to Oct 5, 2022: about 190 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 30, 2026 to Apr 1, 2026: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 16, 2026 to May 22, 2026: about 766 more stars than usual, peak 427 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 21, 2026 to Aug 22, 2026: about 186 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 6 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 4.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: TryGhost/Ghost