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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.

six

“six did not die — it faded, release by release, until the pulse went flat.”

epitaph by fallback-rules · model heuristic-v1 · signals, not verdicts · snapshot from 2026-10-29

Last words: “remove incorrect comma”

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
8.1 months ago

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

release gap
1.9 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
205,173,899

Recent weekly downloads from the package registry.

dependents
591,238

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
    +18 pts
  • Time since last release
    +10 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 · CommitCommit activity paused ~6 months

    Last commit 2026-02-23T02:19:43Z

Living successors

No replacement needed or no drop-in successor registered. Check the repository before planning a migration.

Visit the repository (benjaminp/six) →

Día de los Muertos · Altar of Remembrance

Ofrenda

Every candle represents a person who gave time to six. 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. @benjaminp395 commits
  2. @msabramo25 commits
Middle tier · Core contributors
  1. @jaraco18 commits
  2. @jdufresne12 commits
  3. @brettcannon9 commits
  4. @asottile7 commits
Lower tier · Community builders
  1. @harlowja6 commits
  2. @alexanderlukanin136 commits
  3. @wolph5 commits
  4. @graingert3 commits
It gave the world
205,173,899 downloads/week
Depended on by
591,238 public repos
Years of service
16 years

Hold a seance

The spirit of six 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 six did, how to migrate away, or how it ended.

Lighting the candles for maintainer support links…

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