go-gitea/gitea

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

181

Human commits, 90 days

505

Human commits, 365 days

1.5k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

17%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (19 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (19 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

92

Last release

Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)

Median PR merge time

7 hours

Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 86% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 7 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

416 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

3

Authors for 80% of commits

21

Contributors

399

Top committers

• silverwind: 28% of commits
• wxiaoguang: 17% of commits
• bircni: 13% of commits
• gomitrah: 3% of commits
• lunny: 2% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Dec 26, 2016 to Jan 12, 2017: about 954 more stars than usual, peak 178 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 21, 2017 to Jan 23, 2017: about 224 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 6, 2018 to May 11, 2018: about 546 more stars than usual, peak 286 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jun 4, 2018 to Jun 8, 2018: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 358 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 1, 2020 to Mar 3, 2020: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 3, 2020 to Dec 4, 2020: about 274 more stars than usual, peak 180 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 23, 2021 to Aug 24, 2021: about 151 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 2, 2022 to Aug 4, 2022: about 158 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 20, 2023 to Mar 22, 2023: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 5, 2023 to May 6, 2023: about 127 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 14, 2024 to Dec 15, 2024: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 26, 2025 to Oct 27, 2025: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 197 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

• gitea.dev (GO): latest v1.27.3, published Aug 29, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: go-gitea/gitea, deps.dev: Go gitea.dev