Apache SkyWalking: 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.

2015BIRTHfirst commits

301 commits (3.5%) · +62,614 / −17,241 lines · 3 authors

Led by zhangxin10 (208 commits)

First commits: zhangxin10, 吴晟 Wu Sheng, Administrator

Released: 1.0-alpha1

2016STEADY

985 commits (11.4%) · +572,397 / −448,668 lines · 9 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (538 commits)

First commits: Xin,Zhang, ascrutae, lizl9, 于树强.信息技术中心.架构部, zhangxin, The Gitter Badger (+1 more)

Released: 1.0-alpha2, 1.0-beta, v1.0-Final, v2.0-2016

2017PEAKbusiest year

1,885 commits (21.8%) · +279,812 / −352,622 lines · 18 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (1,046 commits)

First commits: 彭勇升 pengys, 李运涛 liyuntao, clevertension, Gao Hongtao, zhangkewei, baiyang (+9 more)

Released: v2.1-2017, v3.0-2017, v3.0.1-2017, v3.1, v3.1.1 (+7 more)

2018SURGEwell above the usual pace

1,331 commits (15.4%) · +223,204 / −186,140 lines · 75 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (504 commits)

First commits: lican, Jared Tan, XiaoFu, carlvine500, caoyixiong, Liu Haoyang (+61 more)

2019STEADY

888 commits (10.3%) · +177,103 / −36,789 lines · 131 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (235 commits)

First commits: kezhenxu94, zhang-wei, Daming, Weiyi Liu, aderm, Kdump (+108 more)

2020STEADY

753 commits (8.7%) · +226,877 / −125,439 lines · 141 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (183 commits)

First commits: zifeihan, Evan, xbkaishui, Ax1an, huawei, Humbertzhang (+111 more)

2021STEADY

733 commits (8.5%) · +133,530 / −302,223 lines · 115 authors

Led by kezhenxu94 (137 commits)

First commits: Wing, liqiangz, wallezhang, CharliePu, 刘威, Leon Yang (+72 more)

Released: v8.3.0.2

2022STEADY

569 commits (6.6%) · +126,852 / −59,371 lines · 64 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (145 commits)

First commits: pg.yang, yswdqz, yangyiweigege, xiao ru xing, jiang1997, Hper (+34 more)

2023STEADY

409 commits (4.7%) · +107,759 / −58,272 lines · 57 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (89 commits)

First commits: weixiang1862, block666, peachisai, Rick, Rahul Bajaj, 叶梦飞 (+30 more)

2024STEADY

312 commits (3.6%) · +81,585 / −32,175 lines · 37 authors

Led by Wan Kai (71 commits)

First commits: zhengziyi0117, lagagain, 寻找的人, 回村的诱惑, zsh, wetool19 (+14 more)

2025QUIETwell below the usual pace

232 commits (2.7%) · +56,441 / −18,147 lines · 19 authors

Led by Wan Kai (79 commits)

First commits: Ricky Xiang, youjie23, saber-wang, hao, hanwha-jesoos, Sherlock Yin (+2 more)

2026QUIETwell below the usual pace

250 commits (2.9%) · +324,509 / −127,828 lines · 24 authors

Led by 吴晟 Wu Sheng (134 commits)

First commits: Hyunjin-Jeong, Leo Camus, Siman-hub, somil jain, mike-realuptime, hr342425 (+8 more)

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The smallest workflow

Publishes the report to GitHub Pages on every push to main: turn on Pages for the gh-pages branch.

# .github/workflows/gitstats.yml
name: GitStats Report
on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  gitstats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v7
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - uses: shenxianpeng/gitstats-action@v1
        with:
          deploy-to-pages: true