ghostty-org/ghostty

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

346

Human commits, 90 days

1.4k

Human commits, 365 days

5k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

10%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (22 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

53

Last release

Nov 17, 2022 (3 years ago)

Median PR merge time

2 hours

Responsiveness: of 9 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• 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

450 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

2

Authors for 80% of commits

12

Contributors

422

Top committers

• mitchellh: 42% of commits
• jcollie: 13% of commits
• pluiedev: 6% of commits
• fornwall: 5% of commits
• trag1c: 2% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Oct 26, 2023 to Oct 28, 2023: about 20 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Nov 14, 2023 to Nov 15, 2023: about 22 more stars than usual, peak 15 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jan 4, 2024 to Jan 5, 2024: about 32 more stars than usual, peak 23 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 15, 2024 to Apr 15, 2024: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 17 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Dec 26, 2024 to Jan 29, 2025: about 22.8k more stars than usual, peak 4.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Jan 31, 2025 to Jan 31, 2025: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 148 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.
• Jun 23, 2025 to Jun 24, 2025: about 308 more stars than usual, peak 271 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 9, 2025 to Sep 10, 2025: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 3, 2025 to Dec 4, 2025: about 130 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 28, 2026 to May 1, 2026: about 964 more stars than usual, peak 565 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

• The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
• 7 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.
• The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.

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.

Sources: GitHub: ghostty-org/ghostty