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gin-gonic/gin vs linkerd/linkerd2

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, gin and linkerd2 both show healthy maintenance signals. gin last saw a commit 1 month ago with 44+ active contributors, while linkerd2 was committed to 1 week ago with 11+ active contributors. gin is MIT-licensed while linkerd2 is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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gin-gonic/gin

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 44+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 25% of recent commits)
  • 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

linkerd/linkerd2

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 11 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ginlinkerd2
Stars89,09911,487
Last commit1mo ago10d ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues761217
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage71%50%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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