qmk/qmk_firmware
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
20.8k stars · 44.4k forks · C
Healthy
Healthy: actively maintained by 24 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.)
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 4
- Human commits, 90 days
- 56
- Human commits, 365 days
- 358
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 38%
- Last commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 24
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 2 days
Responsiveness: of 15 recent issues, 93% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 hours.
- 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
- 312 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 3
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 52
- Contributors
- 389
Top committers
- zvecr: 44% of commits
- tzarc: 5% of commits
- filterpaper: 4% of commits
- drashna: 2% of commits
- getreuer: 2% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Oct 10, 2016 to Oct 11, 2016: about 28 more stars than usual, peak 22 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 7, 2021 to Mar 8, 2021: about 195 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 29, 2022 to May 30, 2022: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 24, 2023 to Sep 25, 2023: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 21, 2024 to Jul 23, 2024: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 65 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
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: 6.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: qmk/qmk_firmware
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[](https://reporadar.ai/qmk/qmk_firmware)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 15, 2026: Healthy
Computed 2 hours ago · method 2026.10.2