google/flatbuffers

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

2

Human commits, 365 days

155

Bot share of commits, 365 days

4%

Last commit

Sep 14, 2026 (1 month ago)

Last human commit

Sep 14, 2026 (1 month ago)

Authors, 90 days

2

Last release

Feb 6, 2026 (8 months ago)

Median PR merge time

4 days

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 7% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

155 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

10

Authors for 80% of commits

43

Contributors

436

Top committers

• jtdavis777: 14% of commits
• mustiikhalil: 9% of commits
• dbaileychess: 6% of commits
• fliiiix: 6% of commits
• jakobkordez: 4% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jun 23, 2014 to Jul 3, 2014: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 17, 2014 to Aug 18, 2014: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 25, 2014 to Oct 28, 2014: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Mar 12, 2015 to Mar 13, 2015: about 32 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Apr 3, 2015 to Apr 3, 2015: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 31, 2015 to Aug 11, 2015: about 373 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 31, 2015 to Sep 1, 2015: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 5, 2015 to Nov 6, 2015: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 2, 2016 to Jan 4, 2016: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 10, 2016 to Jul 15, 2016: about 144 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 27, 2022 to Aug 1, 2022: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 23, 2022 to Nov 28, 2022: about 270 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Jun 21, 2024 to Jun 22, 2024: about 154 more stars than usual, peak 125 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 22, 2024 to Aug 25, 2024: about 253 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.

• 1 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.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• flatbuffers (NPM): latest 25.9.23, published Sep 24, 2025
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: google/flatbuffers, deps.dev: npm flatbuffers