dragonflydb/dragonfly
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92

/ 100

GradeA

Excellent work. The main thing left to polish is dependency metadata.

Top 4% of 5,156 graded repos

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

Documentation95
Engineering100
Health91
C++31,492Other10d ago

Outstanding. A score of 97/100 puts this repo in a very small tier of truly well-engineered projects.

Top fixes

Highest-impact changes first, ranked by point weight

7 to address
  1. 1
    Install and run instructions9pt

    Add a .env.example listing all required environment variables so contributors know what to set up.

  2. 2
    Dependency manifest6pt

    Add `description = "..."` under [project]. It shows on PyPI and in tooling.

  3. 3
    Dependency manifest6pt

    Add a [project.urls] table (Homepage, Repository) so PyPI links back to your project.

  4. 4
    Dependency manifest6pt

    Add `authors = [...]` under [project] so the package has clear ownership.

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Scorecard

Every check, grouped by category and sorted worst-first

Documentation

95

Contributing guide5pt85

Contributing guide is detailed and thorough.

Install and run instructions9pt90

README documents how to install the project.

README12pt100

README is present.

License6pt100

Licensed under Other.

Engineering

100

Tests18pt100

Test files detected (contrib/charts/dragonfly/golden_test.go).

CI/CD14pt100

CI is configured (.github/workflows/ci.yml).

Linting and formatting5pt100

Linter or formatter configured ([tool.ruff] / [tool.black] in pyproject.toml).

Reproducibility6pt100

Lockfile present (uv.lock). Installs are reproducible.

Issue and PR templates6pt100

Issue or PR templates present.

Project health

91

Dependency manifest6pt71

Dependency manifest found (go.work).

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

  • 121 / 456
    Commits (30d / 90d)
  • 1,262
    Forks
  • 121
    Releaseslatest 4y ago

Community

  • 87% - Good
    Community health
  • 3 bus factor
    authors own >50% of commits
  • 31,492
    Watchers

Responsiveness

  • 43d 10h
    Median issue response
  • 2h
    Median PR merge time
  • 312
    Open issues
Repository files47 root entries
  • .agent
  • .circleci
  • .claude
  • .devcontainer
  • .github
    Good: CI is configured (.github/workflows/ci.yml).
    Good: Dependabot covers 3 ecosystems (github-actions, gomod, pip). Dependencies stay current.
    Good: Issue or PR templates present.
  • .vscode
  • contrib
    Good: Test files detected (contrib/charts/dragonfly/golden_test.go).
    Good: Environment pinned via contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml.
  • docs
  • fuzz
  • patches
  • src
  • tests
  • tools
  • .clang-format
  • .clang-tidy
  • .clangd
  • .ct.yaml
  • .cursorrules
  • .dockerignore
  • .gitignore
    Good: .gitignore present.
  • .gitmodules
  • .gitorderfile
  • .nvmrc
  • .pre-commit-config.yaml
  • .pre-commit-hooks.yaml
  • .snyk
  • AGENTS.md
  • CLA.txt
  • CLAUDE.md
  • CMakeLists.txt
  • 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.
    Good: Contributing guide describes code style expectations.
    Good: Contributing guide explains how to run tests.
    Issue: Contributing guide lacks a PR workflow section (−8 pts).Fix: Explain how to fork, branch, and open a pull request so contributors know what to expect.
    Good: Contributing guide includes code examples.
  • CONTRIBUTORS.md
  • go.work
    Good: Dependency manifest found (go.work).
  • go.work.sum
  • helio
  • LICENSE.md
    Good: Licensed under Other.
  • Makefile
  • pyproject.toml
  • README.ja-JP.md
    Good: README is present.
    Good: README is well structured with multiple sections.
    Good: README includes screenshots or visuals. Great for first impressions.
    Good: README has code examples.
    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.
  • README.ko-KR.md
  • README.md
  • README.pt-BR.md
  • README.th-TH.md
  • README.zh-CN.md
  • TODO.md
  • uv.lock
    Good: Lockfile present (uv.lock). Installs are reproducible.
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