podman-container-tools/podman

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

199

Human commits, 90 days

682

Human commits, 365 days

2.3k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

11%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (15 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (15 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

84

Last release

Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)

Median PR merge time

20 hours

Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 78% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 16 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

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

443 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

3

Authors for 80% of commits

17

Contributors

420

Top committers

• Luap99: 29% of commits
• Honny1: 14% of commits
• mheon: 11% of commits
• danishprakash: 4% of commits
• lsm5: 4% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jan 18, 2019 to Jan 23, 2019: about 135 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 10, 2019 to Mar 12, 2019: about 45 more stars than usual, peak 23 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 16, 2019 to Apr 21, 2019: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 27, 2019 to Aug 2, 2019: about 220 more stars than usual, peak 66 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Oct 16, 2020 to Oct 19, 2020: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 4, 2020 to Dec 10, 2020: about 272 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 31, 2021 to Sep 16, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 387 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 11, 2022 to Aug 12, 2022: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 13, 2025 to Jan 16, 2025: about 105 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 25, 2025 to Jan 28, 2025: about 117 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 14, 2025 to Jul 18, 2025: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

• 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.

• Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• go.podman.io/podman/v6 (GO): latest v6.1.4, published Oct 12, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

Sources: GitHub: podman-container-tools/podman, deps.dev: Go go.podman.io/podman/v6