gatsbyjs/gatsby vs gohugoio/hugo
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, gatsby and hugo both show healthy maintenance signals. gatsby was committed to 5 days ago with 12+ active contributors, while hugo was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors. gatsby is MIT-licensed while hugo is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
gohugoio/hugo
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| gatsby | hugo | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 55,940 | 89,484 |
| Last commit | 5d ago | 27d ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 453 | 246 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 28% | 70% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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