Open-source developer report

Tech

Developers are counted in a month when they write a new commit in an included public GitHub repository. History already present in a fork is not treated as newly written code. Bots and banned organizations are excluded. Raw ingestion includes repeat crawl snapshots; report totals count each repository–commit pair once, then apply the selected scope.

Raw commit rows ingested
1.3B

All time, including repeat crawl snapshots

Pull requests merged
110.5K

Distinct pull requests merged in included repositories during the selected period

Commits inherited through forks
6.1M

Older commit records copied into GitHub forks before each fork was created

New GitHub forks
796

Forked repositories created in the selected period

Contributors found
13.8K

Unique GitHub developers seen before filtering

Active developers · Since inception
2.3K

Unique developers who wrote at least one new commit during this period

Team developers
929

41.2% of active developers

Maintainers · team leads
527 · 526

49 organizations

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Each organization belongs to one category, but it can build on more than one chain. Choose a category, a chain, or both to update every chart.

100.0% of organizations · 100.0% of developers categorized

Active developers over time

The gray line shows everyone found in scanned commits. The colored lines show developers with newly written commits that month, including team developers, maintainers, and leads.

Pull requests merged each month

Each point is the number of distinct pull requests merged in included repositories during that month. Months stand alone; nothing accumulates from earlier months.

Active developers by contribution frequency

Full-time developers contributed on 10 or more days that month, part-time developers on 2–9 days, and one-time developers on 1 day.

Active developers by tenure

Newcomers started contributing less than 3 months ago, emerging developers 3 months to 2 years ago, and established developers 2 or more years ago.

New developers

A developer is counted once, in the month of their first newly written commit in the report.

New repositories and GitHub forks

Repositories are counted in their creation month. GitHub forks are shown separately from repositories that began without inherited fork history.

How much of the dataset is categorized

Organizations known only from GitHub may not have a category yet. They still appear in overall totals, but not in comparisons between categories.

Organizations
100.0%

49 categorized · 0 not yet categorized

Developers
100.0%

2.3K categorized · 0 not yet categorized

Organizations

Developer activity by organization

Each organization keeps the same spot as you move through since inception. Larger circles mean more active developers. Inner circles show team developers, maintainers, and leads. A green border means its latest three-month average active developer count grew versus the prior three months; pink means it shrank. Six months are required for a comparison.

August 2026
Active developersTeam developersMaintainersLeadsLatest 3-month average grew

Use the slider or Play button to move through time. Positions stay fixed so you can follow the same organization from month to month. Select a circle to open its profile on Ecosystem Vision.

Largest categories

Most active chains

Most active organizations

DigitalOcean356
Seagate Technology LLC291
Start9 Labs, Inc.249
Galois, Inc.238
Docusign, Inc.182
AccelByte123
Bluesky Social, PBC87
Secure Scuttlebutt Consortium65
TopMonks s.r.o.56
Any Association52
Complete through 2026-08-01 · Since inceptionEach organization’s current category is used for all dates. Organizations may appear under more than one chain.