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gitleaks/gitleaks vs go-gitea/gitea

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, gitleaks and gitea both show healthy maintenance signals. gitleaks was committed to 1 week ago with 28+ active contributors, while gitea was committed to 2 weeks ago with 29+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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gitleaks/gitleaks

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
  • 28+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 30% 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

go-gitea/gitea

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.

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 29+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% 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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

gitleaksgitea
Stars29,33557,721
Last commit8d ago16d ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues4802,522
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage10%90%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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