google/python-fire
Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.
28.2k stars · 1.5k forks · Python
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since August 2025, and only 0 of 11 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Aug 16, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 16, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Aug 16, 2025 (1 year ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 11 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 71 since Jan 22, 2021
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 9
- Contributors
- 64
Top committers
- dbieber: 56% of commits
- Borda: 8% of commits
- gruberma: 3% of commits
- hugovk: 3% of commits
- joejoevictor: 3% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2021-01-22T21:43:34Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Nov 14, 2017 to Nov 16, 2017: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 19, 2017 to Dec 21, 2017: about 106 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 26, 2017 to Dec 28, 2017: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 10, 2018 to Jan 17, 2018: about 214 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 25, 2018 to Feb 26, 2018: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 17, 2018 to Aug 31, 2018: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 378 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 28, 2018 to Oct 29, 2018: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 6, 2019 to Dec 7, 2019: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Nov 9, 2020 to Nov 12, 2020: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 74 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 14, 2021 to Jun 18, 2021: about 428 more stars than usual, peak 320 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 14, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 28, 2021 to Jan 5, 2022: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 278 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
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
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.6 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- fire (PYPI): latest 0.7.1, published Aug 16, 2025
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/google/python-fire)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Computed 9 hours ago · method 2026.10.2