jqlang/jq

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

24

Human commits, 90 days

32

Human commits, 365 days

87

Bot share of commits, 365 days

19%

Last commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

18

Last release

Jun 20, 2026 (3 months ago)

Median PR merge time

47 hours

Responsiveness: of 12 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

87 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

15

Contributors

238

Top committers

• itchyny: 55% of commits
• A4-Tacks: 3% of commits
• 0-wiz-0: 2% of commits
• arifthpe: 2% of commits
• fab1ano: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• May 19, 2013 to May 22, 2013: about 193 more stars than usual, peak 112 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Sep 19, 2013 to Sep 22, 2013: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 11, 2013 to Dec 11, 2013: about 19 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 15, 2014 to Jun 17, 2014: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 159 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 25, 2015 to Feb 26, 2015: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 27, 2015 to Apr 29, 2015: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 29, 2023 to May 31, 2023: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 1, 2023 to Aug 3, 2023: about 81 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Sep 6, 2023 to Sep 14, 2023: about 581 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Feb 7, 2024 to Feb 12, 2024: about 341 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 10, 2026 to Apr 11, 2026: about 265 more stars than usual, peak 239 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 2, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

• 723 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
• 2 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.

• The star history looks organic.
• 723 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

BSD-2-Clause (OSI-approved)

A year ago

BSD-2-Clause (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

Sources: GitHub: jqlang/jq