niri-wm/niri

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

68

Human commits, 90 days

154

Human commits, 365 days

512

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (18 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (18 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

24

Last release

Apr 25, 2026 (5 months ago)

Median PR merge time

13 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 93% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

• Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

499 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

7

Contributors

209

Top committers

• YaLTeR: 73% of commits
• HigherOrderLogic: 3% of commits
• wrvsrx: 2% of commits
• pgaskin: 1% of commits
• PurpleCloudX: 1% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jan 27, 2024 to Feb 7, 2024: about 459 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 20, 2024 to Apr 23, 2024: about 188 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 1, 2024 to Jul 2, 2024: about 132 more stars than usual, peak 102 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 15, 2024 to Sep 17, 2024: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 11, 2025 to Jan 15, 2025: about 208 more stars than usual, peak 98 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Mar 12, 2025 to Mar 18, 2025: about 828 more stars than usual, peak 311 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 17, 2025 to May 26, 2025: about 277 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Aug 30, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
• Oct 3, 2025 to Oct 14, 2025: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 453 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 10, 2025 to Nov 11, 2025: about 122 more stars than usual, peak 132 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 2, 2026 to Feb 8, 2026: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 496 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 25, 2026 to Apr 28, 2026: about 336 more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 8, 2026 to May 8, 2026: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 6 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.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

GPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• niri (CARGO): latest 0.0.0, published May 12, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

Sources: GitHub: niri-wm/niri, deps.dev: Cargo niri