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
- 2015 – 2026
- 12 years
- Peak Year
- 2026
- 24,918 commits
- Releases
- 28
- latest in 2026
1,398 commits (0.8%) · +957,357 / −264,006 lines · 60 authors
Led by Benjamin Pasero (271 commits)
First commits: Benjamin Pasero, David Storey, Johannes Rieken, João Moreno, Isidor Nikolic, Martin Aeschlimann (+54 more)
Released: 0.10.5
12,008 commits (7.1%) · +1,044,929 / −986,888 lines · 197 authors
Led by Benjamin Pasero (2,274 commits)
First commits: Sandeep Somavarapu, Pine Wu, Christof Marti, Matt Bierner, roblourens, bgashler1@users.noreply.github.com (+174 more)
Released: 0.10.7-insiders, 0.10.10-insiders, 0.10.12-insiders, 1.1.0-insider, translation/20160817.01 (+8 more)
14,565 commits (8.6%) · +778,438 / −598,521 lines · 340 authors
Led by João Moreno (1,676 commits)
First commits: Michel Kaporin, Amy Qiu, Daniel Ye, Christopher Leidigh, Ryan Adolf, Keegan Carruthers-Smith (+281 more)
Released: translation/20170123.01, translation/20170127.01, translation/20172701.01, translation/20170217.01, translation/20170227.01 (+5 more)
16,278 commits (9.6%) · +533,771 / −491,196 lines · 436 authors
Led by Johannes Rieken (1,772 commits)
First commits: Jackson Kearl, Alex Ross, Miguel Solorio, Till Salinger, misolori, Chris Patterson (+367 more)
14,857 commits (8.7%) · +544,289 / −371,975 lines · 368 authors
Led by Matt Bierner (1,806 commits)
First commits: Gabriel DeBacker, pi1024e, Logan Ramos, Robo, Phil Marshall, Kamran Ayub (+275 more)
Released: 1.38.0
15,738 commits (9.3%) · +436,639 / −259,514 lines · 381 authors
Led by Benjamin Pasero (1,652 commits)
First commits: Raymond Zhao, Aditya Thakral, Chuck Lantz, Megan Rogge, Wenlu Wang, mjcrouch (+297 more)
Released: v14
16,257 commits (9.6%) · +571,300 / −331,142 lines · 343 authors
Led by Daniel Imms (1,623 commits)
First commits: Henning Dieterichs, Harald Kirschner, Joyce Er, Andrea Mah, M.U.N.I.N, Liangcheng Juves (+246 more)
13,132 commits (7.7%) · +574,421 / −353,503 lines · 338 authors
Led by Daniel Imms (1,505 commits)
First commits: Aiday Marlen Kyzy, Justin Chen, Aaron Munger, Benjamin Christopher Simmonds, Michael Lively, Robert Estelle (+229 more)
13,128 commits (7.7%) · +524,674 / −338,917 lines · 302 authors
Led by Megan Rogge (1,779 commits)
First commits: BeniBenj, hsfzxjy, Meghan Kulkarni, tisilent, Chapman Pendery, Jacob Jaeggli (+182 more)
11,064 commits (6.5%) · +891,207 / −364,072 lines · 282 authors
Led by Daniel Imms (1,826 commits)
First commits: Osvaldo Ortega, BABA, Florian Verdonck, RedCMD, aslezar, John Willard (+171 more)
16,682 commits (9.8%) · +821,731 / −493,674 lines · 363 authors
Led by Daniel Imms (1,833 commits)
First commits: Copilot, Dmitriy Vasyura, Lee Murray, Elijah King, Bryan Chen, 狒狒神 (+239 more)
Released: 1.106.0
24,918 commits (14.7%) · +5,791,077 / −1,641,411 lines · 413 authors
Led by Lee Murray (1,576 commits)
First commits: Giuseppe Cianci, benibenj, Courtney Webster, Jessie Houghton, Federico Brancasi, cwebster-99 (+300 more)
Released: 1.134.0
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# .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