golang/go

The Go programming language

139.4k stars · 22.3k forks · Go

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 90 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

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.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 459
Human commits, 90 days: 1.1k
Human commits, 365 days: 3.8k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 90
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: n/a

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 92% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.

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

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 9
Authors for 80% of commits: 27
Contributors: 379

Top committers

aclements: 12% of commits
neild: 7% of commits
matloob: 6% of commits
griesemer: 5% of commits
mrkfrmn: 5% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Dec 8, 2014 to Jan 11, 2015: about 4.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.7k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 5, 2017: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 15, 2020 to Nov 15, 2020: about 121 more stars than usual, peak 155 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 24, 2021 to Feb 24, 2021: about 162 more stars than usual, peak 200 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 22, 2021 to May 22, 2021: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 11, 2021 to Oct 13, 2021: about 265 more stars than usual, peak 161 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 8, 2022 to Jan 8, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 17, 2022 to Mar 17, 2022: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 15, 2022 to Apr 15, 2022: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 139 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 7, 2022 to Jun 10, 2022: about 340 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 22, 2022 to Dec 22, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 3, 2023 to Feb 3, 2023: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 31, 2024 to Aug 31, 2024: about 164 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 14, 2025 to Feb 14, 2025: about 99 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 6, 2025 to Dec 6, 2025: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 6, 2026 to Jun 7, 2026: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 17, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 420 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026: about 722 more stars than usual, peak 415 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 104 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

19 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

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
A year ago: BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: golang/go

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 20 hours ago · method 2026.10.2