avelino/awesome-go
Grade a repo

93

/ 100

GradeA

Excellent work. The last thing to polish is a reproducible setup. Widely used, with the craft to match.

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Documentation88
Engineering93
Health100
Go177,763MITtoday

Top fixes

Highest-impact changes first, ranked by point weight

10 to address
  1. 1
    CI/CD14pt

    Add a lint step to catch style issues automatically.

  2. 2
    CI/CD14pt

    Add `tsc --noEmit`, `mypy`, or `cargo check` to catch type errors before they merge.

  3. 3
    CI/CD14pt

    Upload coverage to Codecov, Coveralls, or report it with `--coverage` flags.

  4. 4
    README12pt

    Show a quick-start snippet so contributors can see what using your project looks like.

Scorecard

Every check, grouped by category and sorted worst-first

Documentation

88

Contributing guide5pt77

Contributing guide is detailed and thorough.

README12pt85

README is present.

Install and run instructions9pt90

README documents how to install the project.

License6pt100

Licensed under MIT.

Engineering

93

Reproducibility6pt75

Lockfile present (go.sum). Installs are reproducible.

CI/CD14pt85

CI is configured (.github/workflows/check-for-spammy-issues.yml).

Tests18pt100

Test files detected (main_test.go).

Linting and formatting5pt100

Formatting enforced (gofmt (built into Go toolchain)).

Issue and PR templates6pt100

Issue or PR templates present.

Project health

100

Dependency manifest6pt100

Dependency manifest found (go.mod).

Repository metadata5pt100

Repository has a description.

Activity5pt100

Actively maintained (pushed within the last month).

Housekeeping3pt100

.gitignore present.

Repository health signals

Activity, community, and responsiveness at scan time

Activity

  • 40 / 133
    Commits (30d / 90d)
  • 13,408
    Forks
  • 0
    Releases

Community

  • 100% - Good
    Community health
  • -
    authors own >50% of commits
  • 177,763
    Watchers

Responsiveness

  • 1h
    Median issue response
  • <1h
    Median PR merge time
  • 190
    Open issues
Repository files23 root entries
  • .github
    Good: CI is configured (.github/workflows/check-for-spammy-issues.yml).
    Good: Issue or PR templates present.
  • pkg
  • tmpl
  • .codeclimate.yml
  • .cursorrules
  • .dockerignore
  • .gitattributes
  • .gitignore
    Good: .gitignore present.
  • AGENTS.md
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
    Good: Code of conduct present.
  • CONTRIBUTING.md
    Good: Contributing guide is detailed and thorough.
    Issue: Contributing guide lacks a setup section (−12 pts).Fix: Show new contributors how to get a local dev environment running.
    Issue: Contributing guide lacks a code style section (−8 pts).Fix: Describe your linting/formatting rules and how to run them.
    Issue: Contributing guide lacks a testing section (−8 pts).Fix: Show contributors how to run the test suite (e.g. npm test, pytest, cargo test).
    Good: Contributing guide describes the PR/review workflow.
    Good: Contributing guide includes code examples.
  • COVERAGE.md
  • go.mod
    Good: Dependency manifest found (go.mod).
  • go.sum
    Good: Lockfile present (go.sum). Installs are reproducible.
  • LICENSE
    Good: Licensed under MIT.
  • main_test.go
    Good: Test files detected (main_test.go).
  • main.go
  • MAINTAINERS
  • maturity_test.go
  • netlify.toml
  • README.md
    Good: README is present.
    Good: README is well structured with multiple sections.
    Good: README includes screenshots or visuals. Great for first impressions.
    Issue: README has no code examples (−15 pts).Fix: Show a quick-start snippet so contributors can see what using your project looks like.
    Good: README links to a live demo or deployed app.
    Good: README includes status badges.
    Good: README documents how to install the project.
    Good: README documents how to run the project.
  • SECURITY.md
    Good: Security policy present.
  • stale_repositories_test.go
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