xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
Real-ESRGAN aims at developing Practical Algorithms for General Image/Video Restoration.
37.1k stars · 4.5k forks · Python
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since April 2024, and only 0 of 27 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
- One person wrote 87% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
- A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Apr 2, 2024 (2 years ago)
- Last human commit
- Apr 2, 2024 (2 years ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Sep 20, 2022 (4 years ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 8 hours
Responsiveness: of 27 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 100 since Aug 8, 2021
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 11
Top committers
- xinntao: 87% of commits
- ToTheBeginning: 4% of commits
- airogachev: 1% of commits
- AK391: 1% of commits
- Baiyuetribe: 1% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2021-08-08T08:35:38Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Aug 30, 2021 to Sep 17, 2021: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 321 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a new release.
- Oct 9, 2021 to Oct 14, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 476 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Dec 2, 2021 to Dec 7, 2021: about 367 more stars than usual, peak 219 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 9, 2022 to May 10, 2022: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 87 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 21, 2022 to Sep 4, 2022: about 632 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 24, 2022 to Nov 24, 2022: about 59 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 27, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023: about 126 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 6, 2026 to Feb 8, 2026: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 5 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.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.7 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
Packages
- realesrgan (PYPI): latest 0.3.0, published Sep 20, 2022
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: xinntao/Real-ESRGAN, deps.dev: PyPI realesrgan
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- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2