pbek/QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
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Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 97% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- 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
- 132
- Human commits, 90 days
- 262
- Human commits, 365 days
- 1.3k
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 5%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (10 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (10 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 20 recent issues, 100% 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
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 475 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 112
Top committers
- pbek: 97% of commits
- MySkeletonHurts: 1% of commits
- VXNCXNX: 0% of commits
- FaxMac: 0% of commits
- gregoreficint: 0% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Sep 25, 2020 to Sep 26, 2020: about 15 more stars than usual, peak 11 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 3, 2023 to Sep 10, 2023: about 247 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
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
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.4 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- GPL-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: pbek/QOwnNotes
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
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