torvalds/linux

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

1.8k

Human commits, 90 days

16.7k

Human commits, 365 days

87.2k

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (1 day ago)

Authors, 90 days

211

Last release

none found

Median PR merge time

n/a

Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.

• 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.
• Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Personal account

Commits sampled

500 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

24

Authors for 80% of commits

111

Contributors

Too many for GitHub to count

Top committers

• torvalds: 15% of commits
• brauner: 9% of commits
• kuba-moo: 4% of commits
• 4ncientH: 2% of commits
• airlied: 2% of commits

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

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Mar 29, 2013 to Mar 29, 2013: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Feb 25, 2014 to Feb 26, 2014: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 84 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 15, 2014 to Oct 21, 2014: about 214 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 15, 2015 to Mar 16, 2015: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 64 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 27, 2015 to Sep 28, 2015: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 25, 2016 to Aug 25, 2016: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 30, 2016 to Sep 6, 2016: about 564 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 4, 2017 to Sep 8, 2017: about 345 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jun 4, 2018 to Jun 5, 2018: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 20, 2018 to Sep 22, 2018: about 161 more stars than usual, peak 120 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 28, 2019 to Mar 30, 2019: about 361 more stars than usual, peak 214 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Apr 10, 2019 to Apr 12, 2019: about 510 more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jul 29, 2019 to Aug 1, 2019: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 111 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jul 18, 2020 to Jul 20, 2020: about 281 more stars than usual, peak 166 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 18, 2020 to Sep 18, 2020: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 29, 2020 to Sep 30, 2020: about 155 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 7, 2021 to Mar 11, 2021: about 633 more stars than usual, peak 254 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Apr 21, 2021 to Apr 24, 2021: about 503 more stars than usual, peak 225 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 14, 2021 to Sep 15, 2021: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 174 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 25, 2022 to Jan 30, 2022: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 361 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jul 5, 2022 to Jul 5, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 21, 2022 to Sep 22, 2022: about 113 more stars than usual, peak 142 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 6, 2022 to Oct 7, 2022: about 159 more stars than usual, peak 137 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Dec 2, 2022 to Dec 3, 2022: about 294 more stars than usual, peak 252 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 12, 2023 to Jan 13, 2023: about 177 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• May 15, 2023 to May 18, 2023: about 292 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a flat block of stars. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 30, 2023 to Oct 31, 2023: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 147 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 15, 2023 to Nov 16, 2023: about 137 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 31, 2024 to Aug 31, 2024: about 173 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 24, 2024 to Oct 25, 2024: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 164 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 18, 2025 to Aug 20, 2025: about 176 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 21, 2025 to Sep 25, 2025: about 510 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 25, 2025 to Nov 25, 2025: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 158 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Nov 30, 2025 to Dec 12, 2025: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 249 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Jan 11, 2026 to Jan 15, 2026: about 752 more stars than usual, peak 346 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Feb 25, 2026 to Mar 9, 2026: about 1.8k more stars than usual, peak 524 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 17, 2026 to Mar 19, 2026: about 496 more stars than usual, peak 413 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Mar 31, 2026 to Apr 1, 2026: about 340 more stars than usual, peak 360 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 24, 2026 to Aug 24, 2026: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 322 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Aug 29, 2026 to Sep 7, 2026: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 529 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Sep 10, 2026 to Sep 13, 2026: about 721 more stars than usual, peak 539 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
• Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 13, 2026: about 139 more stars than usual, peak 254 in one day, a shape we can't classify. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.

• 3.8k stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
• 31 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.

• Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
• 3769 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3 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: 3.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: torvalds/linux