charmbracelet/glow

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

2

Human commits, 90 days

9

Human commits, 365 days

13

Bot share of commits, 365 days

35%

Last commit

Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

3

Last release

Aug 11, 2026 (2 months ago)

Median PR merge time

under an hour

Responsiveness: of 18 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

13 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

3

Contributors

49

Top committers

• andrinoff: 54% of commits
• andreynering: 23% of commits
• charmcli: 8% of commits
• mvanhorn: 8% of commits
• OphirBleicher: 8% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Dec 22, 2019 to Jan 23, 2020: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 16, 2020 to Oct 27, 2020: about 2.3k more stars than usual, peak 625 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.
• Dec 7, 2021 to Dec 9, 2021: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 23, 2022 to Jan 27, 2022: about 260 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 9, 2022 to Dec 13, 2022: about 415 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Apr 30, 2023 to May 1, 2023: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Apr 11, 2025 to Apr 12, 2025: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 31, 2025 to Nov 11, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 353 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 20, 2025 to Nov 22, 2025: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 11, 2026 to May 11, 2026: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
• 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.

• Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
• 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

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• charm.land/glow/v3 (GO): latest v3.0.0, published Aug 11, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: charmbracelet/glow, deps.dev: Go charm.land/glow/v3