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go-vikunja/vikunja vs mattermost/focalboard

mattermost/focalboard shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, focalboard shows healthier maintenance signals than vikunja. focalboard rates Healthy overall while vikunja rates Mixed. vikunja was committed to 3 days ago with 6+ active contributors, while focalboard last saw a commit 4 months ago with 32+ active contributors. vikunja is AGPL-3.0-licensed while focalboard is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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go-vikunja/vikunja

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

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

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 6 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 OpenSSF Scorecard

mattermost/focalboard

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 3mo ago
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Last commit 3mo ago
  • 32+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% 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

vikunjafocalboard
Stars5,38426,437
Last commit3d ago4mo ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues235784
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage60%35%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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