gatsbyjs/gatsby

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

1

Human commits, 90 days

9

Human commits, 365 days

35

Bot share of commits, 365 days

71%

Last commit

Sep 16, 2026 (28 days ago)

Last human commit

Sep 16, 2026 (28 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

2

Last release

Feb 10, 2026 (8 months ago)

Median PR merge time

3 days

Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Most commits in the last year come from bots.
• Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

35 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

5

Contributors

415

Top committers

• serhalp: 46% of commits
• pieh: 26% of commits
• 43081j: 3% of commits
• BriCua: 3% of commits
• gameroman: 3% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jul 23, 2015 to Jul 24, 2015: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Sep 27, 2015 to Oct 12, 2015: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 422 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Feb 22, 2016 to Feb 23, 2016: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 20, 2016 to Jul 26, 2016: about 938 more stars than usual, peak 522 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Aug 12, 2016 to Aug 13, 2016: about 42 more stars than usual, peak 29 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 3, 2016 to Oct 5, 2016: about 59 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.
• Oct 31, 2016 to Nov 11, 2016: about 452 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 18, 2017 to Jan 20, 2017: about 153 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 6, 2017 to Jul 14, 2017: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 249 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 17, 2017 to Jul 20, 2017: about 166 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 29, 2017 to Oct 5, 2017: about 280 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 14, 2019 to Aug 15, 2019: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 30, 2019 to Dec 31, 2019: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 7, 2020 to Jan 7, 2020: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 6, 2020 to Oct 6, 2020: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 23, 2021 to Apr 27, 2021: about 140 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 31, 2021 to Dec 31, 2021: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 4, 2022 to Jun 5, 2022: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 31, 2024 to Jan 9, 2025: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

• 3 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: 6.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: gatsbyjs/gatsby