microsoft/vscode

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

2.3k

Human commits, 90 days

6.2k

Human commits, 365 days

26.7k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

3%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (20 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

49

Last release

Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)

Median PR merge time

2 hours

Responsiveness: of 19 recent issues, 42% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 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

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

485 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

7

Authors for 80% of commits

19

Contributors

314

Top committers

• roblourens: 17% of commits
• vritant24: 9% of commits
• hediet: 8% of commits
• connor4312: 5% of commits
• bhavyaus: 4% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 18, 2015 to Dec 22, 2015: about 7.8k more stars than usual, peak 3.5k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
• Apr 14, 2016 to Apr 22, 2016: about 716 more stars than usual, peak 254 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 12, 2017 to Oct 13, 2017: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 1, 2017 to Nov 2, 2017: about 180 more stars than usual, peak 190 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 18, 2018 to May 21, 2018: about 335 more stars than usual, peak 232 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 4, 2018 to Jun 8, 2018: about 684 more stars than usual, peak 312 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 27, 2018 to Sep 28, 2018: about 322 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2019 to Mar 9, 2019: about 227 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 7, 2019 to May 10, 2019: about 372 more stars than usual, peak 225 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 10, 2019 to Nov 14, 2019: about 319 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 16, 2020 to Apr 17, 2020: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 26, 2020 to Aug 26, 2020: about 134 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 12, 2020 to Dec 12, 2020: about 150 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 6, 2021 to Feb 7, 2021: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 6, 2021 to Mar 7, 2021: about 353 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 2, 2021 to Apr 2, 2021: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 12, 2021 to Jun 12, 2021: about 133 more stars than usual, peak 179 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 10, 2021 to Jul 11, 2021: about 170 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 7, 2021 to Aug 7, 2021: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 5, 2022 to Feb 5, 2022: about 92 more stars than usual, peak 133 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 7, 2022 to May 8, 2022: about 137 more stars than usual, peak 152 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 12, 2022 to Jul 12, 2022: about 85 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 8, 2022 to Dec 8, 2022: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 8, 2023 to Jul 9, 2023: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 24, 2023 to Aug 29, 2023: about 461 more stars than usual, peak 202 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 3, 2023 to Sep 4, 2023: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 124 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 15, 2024 to Feb 16, 2024: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 153 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 7, 2024 to Jun 7, 2024: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 5, 2024 to Jul 5, 2024: about 131 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 15, 2025 to Jan 15, 2025: about 109 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2025 to Mar 7, 2025: about 110 more stars than usual, peak 155 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 19, 2025 to May 28, 2025: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 281 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 27, 2026 to May 28, 2026: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 20, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 440 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026: about 785 more stars than usual, peak 457 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 26, 2026 to Sep 27, 2026: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 183 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 27 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

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

Sources: GitHub: microsoft/vscode