getzola/zola vs gohugoio/hugo
gohugoio/hugo shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, hugo shows healthier maintenance signals than zola. hugo rates Healthy overall while zola rates Mixed. zola was committed to 4 days ago with 8+ active contributors, while hugo was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors. zola is EUPL-1.2-licensed while hugo is Apache-2.0-licensed. hugo has no known critical CVEs, while zola has 1.
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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
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
| zola | hugo | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 17,429 | 89,484 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 27d ago |
| License | EUPL-1.2 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 192 | 246 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 59% | 70% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 1 high · 3 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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