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pypi
65
ghost score
Haunted

pypi package memorial

ℹ︎ How to read this score
Signals, not verdicts. A ghost score (0–100) estimates the probability that a repository will go 12 months without a non-bot commit, become archived, or be deprecated. A high score is a prompt to check your dependency health — never an accusation against its maintainers.

nose

“A pioneering force in Python testing that paved the way for a generation of developers. Its enduring influence remains woven into the fabric of the ecosystem it helped build.”

epitaph by gemma-aistudio/gemma-4-31b-it · model heuristic-v1 · signals, not verdicts · snapshot from 2026-10-29

Last words: “Fix CHANGELOG.”

Vital signs

hover or focus any vital for threshold guidance
commit pulse (26 wks)
flatlined

Weekly commit cadence over the last 6 months; flatlined means 0 recent commits.

last commit
10.7 years ago

Threshold: >365 days without a commit strongly elevates ghost risk.

release gap
11.4 years

Threshold: >365 days since the latest registry release.

bus factor
not enough data

Share of commits by the single top author; >=80% means reliance on one person.

issue close rate
not enough data

Share of issues closed over the past year; <25% can signal backlog pressure.

weekly downloads
1,400,175

Recent weekly downloads from the package registry.

dependents
72,099

Public repositories or packages that depend on this project.

years active
16 years

Time elapsed since the package's first recorded release.

What pushed this score up or down

Transparent signal attribution — positive points increase ghost risk, green negative points reflect active mitigations.

model: heuristic-v1
  • Time since last commit
    +40 pts
  • Time since last release
    +15 pts
  • Zero active authors in past year
    +10 pts

Cause of death

Gradual Dormancy

No sudden announcement — commits and releases gradually spaced out until activity went quiet.

  1. #1 · CommitNo commits in 10+ years

    Last commit 2016-03-04T01:16:26Z

Living successors

  • pytestcurated

    The standard modern Python test runner

Visit the repository (nose-devs/nose) →

Día de los Muertos · Altar of Remembrance

Ofrenda

Every candle represents a person who gave time to nose. In the Día de los Muertos tradition, an ofrenda welcomes back the memory of those who came before — honoring the hands that built the software we rely on.

Upper tier · Lead stewards
  1. @jpellerin369 commits
  2. @jszakmeister203 commits
Middle tier · Core contributors
  1. @kumar303119 commits
  2. @mitya5714 commits
  3. @liucougar13 commits
  4. @pzerbinos12 commits
Lower tier · Community builders
  1. @jjlee11 commits
  2. @bukzor9 commits
  3. @domenkozar6 commits
  4. @wiggin156 commits
It gave the world
1,400,175 downloads/week
Depended on by
72,099 public repos
Years of service
16 years

Hold a seance

The spirit of nose answers strictly from its own records — README, releases, and issues. It never impersonates a maintainer and says “I don't remember that” when evidence is missing.

The candles are lit. Pick a question above or ask what nose did, how to migrate away, or how it ended.

Lighting the candles for maintainer support links…

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