History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2010 – 2026
17 years
Peak Year
2024
33,228 commits
Releases
23
latest in 2015
2010BIRTHfirst commits

1,173 commits (0.3%) · +108,106 / −28,512 lines · 17 authors

Led by Graydon Hoare (686 commits)

First commits: Graydon Hoare, Patrick Walton, Roy Frostig, Michael Bebenita, Jeffrey Yasskin, Ralph Giles (+11 more)

2011QUIETwell below the usual pace

5,822 commits (1.7%) · +653,479 / −603,775 lines · 34 authors

Led by Brian Anderson (1,719 commits)

First commits: Marijn Haverbeke, Tim Chevalier, Niko Matsakis, Eric Holk, Michael Sullivan, Lindsey Kuper (+22 more)

2012QUIETwell below the usual pace

7,425 commits (2.1%) · +631,795 / −399,932 lines · 116 authors

Led by Brian Anderson (2,276 commits)

First commits: Ben Blum, Jeff Olson, Kevin Cantu, Kevin Atkinson, Jesse Jones, Elliott Slaughter (+87 more)

Released: 0.1, release-0.1, 0.2, release-0.2, 0.3 (+6 more)

2013STEADY

10,693 commits (3.1%) · +712,181 / −567,152 lines · 275 authors

Led by bors (2,677 commits)

First commits: bors, Alex Crichton, John Clements, blake2-ppc, emberian, Felix S. Klock II (+225 more)

Released: 0.6, release-0.6, 0.7, release-0.7, 0.8

2014STEADY

11,101 commits (3.2%) · +719,364 / −578,791 lines · 531 authors

Led by bors (2,972 commits)

First commits: Jorge Aparicio, Nick Cameron, Aaron Turon, Brian Koropoff, Adolfo Ochagavía, Jonas Hietala (+418 more)

Released: 0.9, 0.10, 0.11.0, 0.12.0

2015STEADY

14,611 commits (4.2%) · +576,859 / −448,025 lines · 802 authors

Led by bors (2,565 commits)

First commits: Andre Bogus, Marcus Klaas de Vries, Guillaume Gomez, Georg Brandl, Nick Hamann, Dave Huseby (+604 more)

Released: 1.0.0-alpha, 1.0.0-alpha.2, 1.0.0-beta

2016STEADY

13,836 commits (4.0%) · +474,803 / −380,747 lines · 706 authors

Led by bors (1,989 commits)

First commits: Sophia June Turner, Mark Rousskov, Jeremy Soller, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy, Nicholas Nethercote, Matthew Piziak (+470 more)

2017STEADY

15,544 commits (4.5%) · +452,900 / −324,734 lines · 727 authors

Led by bors (2,013 commits)

First commits: Seiichi Uchida, bjorn3, Shotaro Yamada, Scott McMurray, Gauri Kholkar, Michael Hewson (+433 more)

2018STEADY

22,477 commits (6.5%) · +606,551 / −471,124 lines · 823 authors

Led by bors (2,463 commits)

First commits: Mark Mansi, Philipp Krones, ljedrz, Matthias Krüger, csmoe, Alexander Regueiro (+489 more)

2019STEADY

27,622 commits (8.0%) · +677,294 / −566,893 lines · 905 authors

Led by bors (4,140 commits)

First commits: Yuki Okushi, Edwin Cheng, Lzu Tao, Jeremy Kolb, Taiki Endo, Ville Penttinen (+518 more)

2020STEADY

32,845 commits (9.5%) · +906,211 / −471,503 lines · 1,116 authors

Led by bors (5,694 commits)

First commits: Veetaha, Noah Lev, Alexis (Poliorcetics) Bourget, Eduardo Broto, David Cook, Dániel Buga (+669 more)

2021STEADY

27,504 commits (8.0%) · +697,819 / −362,592 lines · 1,101 authors

Led by bors (5,556 commits)

First commits: Deadbeef, Fabian Wolff, Takayuki Maeda, Smittyvb, Yoshitomo Nakanishi, Dawer (+623 more)

2022STEADY

30,082 commits (8.7%) · +1,256,625 / −524,842 lines · 1,189 authors

Led by bors (5,036 commits)

First commits: Amos Wenger, Ryo Yoshida, Miguel Guarniz, Jannis Christopher Köhl, Xiretza, Jhonny Bill Mena (+676 more)

2023STEADY

28,833 commits (8.3%) · +1,098,466 / −614,664 lines · 1,098 authors

Led by bors (5,279 commits)

First commits: Zalathar, y21, Catherine, The Miri Cronjob Bot, Ali Bektas, Ryan Mehri (+566 more)

2024PEAKbusiest year

33,228 commits (9.6%) · +1,299,916 / −753,927 lines · 1,242 authors

Led by bors (4,921 commits)

First commits: Oneirical, Johann Hemmann, Sayantan Chakraborty, Shoyu Vanilla, tiif, Giga Bowser (+628 more)

2025STEADY

32,846 commits (9.5%) · +2,358,222 / −822,232 lines · 1,095 authors

Led by Matthias Krüger (2,813 commits)

First commits: Ada Alakbarova, Jonathan Brouwer, bit-aloo, A4-Tacks, xizheyin, Madhav Madhusoodanan (+537 more)

2026STEADY

29,874 commits (8.6%) · +1,715,367 / −810,674 lines · 1,214 authors

Led by Jonathan Brouwer (4,275 commits)

First commits: Mohamed Ali, Joao Roberto, WhySoBad, Zac Harrold, qaijuang, albab-hasan (+694 more)