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ethereum/go-ethereum vs go-gitea/gitea

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

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Healthy

Healthy across the board

worst of 4 axes
Use as dependencyConcerns

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • ✓Last commit today
  • ✓36+ active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 20% of recent commits)
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  • ✓LGPL-3.0 licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present
  • ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
What would change the summary?
  • →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

go-gitea/gitea →

Healthy

Healthy across the board

Use as dependencyHealthy

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

Fork & modifyHealthy

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

Learn fromHealthy

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

Deploy as-isHealthy

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • ✓Last commit today
  • ✓23+ active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
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  • ✓MIT licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

go-ethereumgitea
Stars51,02955,509
Last commit6d ago6d ago
LicenseLGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues4012,774
Has tests✓✓
Has CI✓✓
Test coverage100%24%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade——
Cycles——
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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