freeCodeCamp/devdocs
API Documentation Browser
39.5k stars · 2.7k forks · Ruby
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 85% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- 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.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 47
- Human commits, 90 days
- 286
- Human commits, 365 days
- 613
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 2%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 12
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 26 hours
Responsiveness: of 8 recent issues, 25% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 15 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 492 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 255
Top committers
- simon04: 85% of commits
- spamguy: 3% of commits
- yzytom: 2% of commits
- thedanbob: 1% of commits
- jask06: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jan 8, 2014 to Jan 9, 2014: about 30 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 22, 2014 to Jan 29, 2014: about 355 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 4, 2014 to Feb 5, 2014: about 162 more stars than usual, peak 96 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Mar 26, 2014 to Mar 26, 2014: about 29 more stars than usual, peak 33 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 2, 2014 to Apr 3, 2014: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 27 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jun 6, 2014 to Jun 10, 2014: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 3, 2014 to Sep 5, 2014: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Feb 11, 2015 to Feb 11, 2015: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 8, 2015 to Nov 11, 2015: about 283 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 18, 2015 to Nov 20, 2015: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 29, 2017 to Aug 30, 2017: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 18, 2017 to Oct 26, 2017: about 975 more stars than usual, peak 522 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.
- Mar 26, 2018 to Mar 30, 2018: about 137 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 15, 2022 to Apr 20, 2022: about 186 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 12, 2024 to Jan 14, 2024: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 61 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.
- Jul 27, 2024 to Aug 4, 2024: about 265 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 17, 2025 to Jul 18, 2025: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 21, 2025 to Aug 26, 2025: about 305 more stars than usual, peak 97 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 14, 2025 to Oct 16, 2025: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: freeCodeCamp/devdocs
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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