pathwaycom/pathway
Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.
62.1k stars · 1.7k forks · Python
Caution
Caution: star growth includes unexplained bursts.
Why
- Star growth includes 4 unexplained bursts, about 9,618 stars above the usual rate (15 % of all stars). Anyone can buy stars for any repo. (source 1)
What would change this
- A new star analysis that no longer finds unexplained bursts.
- 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.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 62
- Human commits, 90 days
- 189
- Human commits, 365 days
- 690
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (19 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (19 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 7
- Last release
- Aug 1, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 3 days
Responsiveness: of 7 recent issues, 43% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 6 days.
- 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
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 500 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 43
Top committers
- Pathway-Dev: 46% of commits
- zxqfd555: 45% of commits
- pw-ppodhajski: 3% of commits
- gitFoxCode: 2% of commits
- thinkapoorv: 1% of commits
The top committer changed during this period.
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteUnexplained bursts, confidence high
Bursts
- Jul 26, 2023 to Jul 26, 2023: about 10 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 18, 2023 to Oct 26, 2023: about 136 more stars than usual, peak 26 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 3, 2023 to Dec 8, 2023: about 186 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 13, 2023 to Dec 15, 2023: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Dec 22, 2023 to Dec 24, 2023: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 1, 2024 to Feb 9, 2024: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 13, 2024 to Feb 13, 2024: about 23 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 21, 2024 to Jun 2, 2024: about 411 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 10, 2024 to Jun 14, 2024: about 202 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Aug 21, 2024 to Aug 23, 2024: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 31, 2024 to Sep 5, 2024: about 227 more stars than usual, peak 117 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 9, 2024 to Nov 11, 2024: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 90 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Dec 5, 2024 to Dec 21, 2024: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 512 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Mar 5, 2025 to Mar 14, 2025: about 8k more stars than usual, peak 4.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 14, 2025 to Apr 19, 2025: about 546 more stars than usual, peak 384 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 17, 2025 to Jun 4, 2025: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 256 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jun 18, 2025 to Jun 26, 2025: about 1.3k more stars than usual, peak 422 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Aug 1, 2025 to Aug 4, 2025: about 615 more stars than usual, peak 384 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 6, 2025 to Sep 11, 2025: about 7.3k more stars than usual, peak 3.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 18, 2025 to Nov 24, 2025: about 587 more stars than usual, peak 297 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 23, 2025 to Jan 11, 2026: about 5.2k more stars than usual, peak 1.3k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 13, 2026 to Jan 15, 2026: about 276 more stars than usual, peak 188 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 16, 2026 to Apr 11, 2026: about 4.1k more stars than usual, peak 792 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
- 6 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.
- Unexplained bursts: stars arrived with no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- pathway (PYPI): latest 0.33.0, published Sep 18, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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