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glanceapp/glance vs go-gitea/gitea

go-gitea/gitea shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, gitea shows healthier maintenance signals than glance. gitea rates Healthy overall while glance rates Mixed. glance was committed to 1 week ago with 17+ active contributors, while gitea was committed to 2 weeks ago with 29+ active contributors. glance is AGPL-3.0-licensed while gitea is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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glanceapp/glance

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility

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.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 17 active contributors
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

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

glancegitea
Stars36,89557,721
Last commit11d ago16d ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues3152,522
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage5%90%
Dependency CVEs0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 lowNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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