openwrt/openwrt

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28.7k stars · 13.1k forks · C

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 51 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (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.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 1k
Human commits, 90 days: 1.9k
Human commits, 365 days: 5.9k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 14, 2026 (11 hours ago)
Last human commit: Oct 14, 2026 (11 hours ago)
Authors, 90 days: 51
Last release: Jul 26, 2026 (2 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 8 hours

Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 30% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 8 hours.

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

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 500 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 3
Authors for 80% of commits: 12
Contributors: 396

Top committers

nbd168: 28% of commits
l0rdg3x: 16% of commits
dangowrt: 11% of commits
JuliusBairaktaris: 4% of commits
jonasjelonek: 3% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jan 3, 2018 to Jan 11, 2018: about 159 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.
Jan 10, 2021 to Jan 11, 2021: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 21, 2021 to Mar 22, 2021: about 89 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 11, 2021 to Apr 14, 2021: about 231 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
May 30, 2021 to Jun 1, 2021: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 6, 2021 to Sep 7, 2021: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Oct 11, 2021 to Oct 12, 2021: about 58 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.
Aug 15, 2022 to Aug 16, 2022: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 13, 2023 to Feb 14, 2023: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 7, 2025 to Sep 9, 2025: about 232 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.
May 3, 2026 to May 4, 2026: about 245 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 28, 2026 to Jul 31, 2026: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

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.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
A year ago: GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: openwrt/openwrt

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy

Computed 10 hours ago · method 2026.10.2