zellij-org/zellij

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

35

Human commits, 90 days

101

Human commits, 365 days

321

Bot share of commits, 365 days

0%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

34

Last release

Aug 28, 2026 (1 month ago)

Median PR merge time

under an hour

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 33% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 days.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

321 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

6

Contributors

218

Top committers

• imsnif: 66% of commits
• divens: 8% of commits
• tlinford: 2% of commits
• har7an: 2% of commits
• Zykino: 2% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Nov 1, 2020 to Nov 5, 2020: about 147 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Feb 8, 2021 to Feb 15, 2021: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 20, 2021 to May 21, 2021: about 2.2k more stars than usual, peak 664 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• May 28, 2021 to May 31, 2021: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 2, 2021 to Nov 5, 2021: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Dec 23, 2021 to Dec 26, 2021: about 71 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 22, 2022 to Feb 26, 2022: about 551 more stars than usual, peak 324 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 9, 2022 to May 9, 2022: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 58 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 8, 2022 to Jun 11, 2022: about 96 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 29, 2022 to Jul 30, 2022: about 72 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Aug 12, 2022 to Aug 23, 2022: about 523 more stars than usual, peak 148 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 7, 2023 to Jan 10, 2023: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 7, 2023 to Mar 10, 2023: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 20, 2023 to Jun 21, 2023: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 154 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jun 27, 2023 to Jun 29, 2023: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 28, 2023 to Jul 29, 2023: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 5, 2024 to Feb 6, 2024: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 24, 2024 to Feb 27, 2024: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 22, 2024 to Apr 28, 2024: about 211 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 4, 2024 to Nov 5, 2024: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 3, 2025 to Jul 8, 2025: about 147 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 7, 2026 to Feb 8, 2026: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 75 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 28, 2026 to Apr 2, 2026: about 280 more stars than usual, peak 146 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 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.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 2.8 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• zellij (CARGO): latest 0.45.1, published Aug 28, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 2.8 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: zellij-org/zellij, deps.dev: Cargo zellij