gatsbyjs/gatsby vs getzola/zola
gatsbyjs/gatsby shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, gatsby shows healthier maintenance signals than zola. gatsby rates Healthy overall while zola rates Mixed. gatsby was committed to 5 days ago with 12+ active contributors, while zola was committed to 4 days ago with 8+ active contributors. gatsby is MIT-licensed while zola is EUPL-1.2-licensed. gatsby has no known critical CVEs, while zola has 1.
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gatsbyjs/gatsby
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (2/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
getzola/zola
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
non-standard license (EUPL-1.2); 1 high-severity CVE in dependencies…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
1 high-severity CVE in dependencies; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (EUPL-1.2) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠1 high-severity advisory in transitive deps
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓EUPL-1.2 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: resolve the high-severity advisory
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| gatsby | zola | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 55,940 | 17,429 |
| Last commit | 5d ago | 4d ago |
| License | MIT | EUPL-1.2 |
| Open issues | 453 | 192 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | 59% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 1 high · 3 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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