huggingface/datasets

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

29

Human commits, 90 days

82

Human commits, 365 days

247

Bot share of commits, 365 days

1%

Last commit

Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)

Last human commit

Oct 6, 2026 (8 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

44

Last release

Oct 5, 2026 (9 days ago)

Median PR merge time

4 days

Responsiveness: of 26 recent issues, 15% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 4 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

247 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

3

Authors for 80% of commits

45

Contributors

445

Top committers

• lhoestq: 44% of commits
• behroozazarkhalili: 4% of commits
• ebarkhordar: 4% of commits
• CloseChoice: 4% of commits
• vineethsaivs: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• May 13, 2020 to Jun 8, 2020: about 928 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 11, 2020 to Jul 17, 2020: about 996 more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 11, 2020 to Sep 15, 2020: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 1, 2020 to Oct 6, 2020: about 717 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 27, 2020 to Dec 3, 2020: about 860 more stars than usual, peak 181 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 5, 2021 to Jan 8, 2021: about 313 more stars than usual, peak 198 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 30, 2021 to May 3, 2021: about 618 more stars than usual, peak 290 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Sep 8, 2021 to Sep 18, 2021: about 782 more stars than usual, peak 395 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Nov 10, 2021 to Nov 16, 2021: about 804 more stars than usual, peak 218 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.
• Feb 16, 2022 to Feb 20, 2022: about 342 more stars than usual, peak 230 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.
• Mar 9, 2022 to Mar 11, 2022: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 6, 2022 to Oct 8, 2022: about 284 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

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

• datasets (PYPI): latest 5.1.0, published Oct 5, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

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

Sources: GitHub: huggingface/datasets, deps.dev: PyPI datasets