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A well-known project done right. Strong docs and solid engineering throughout.

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GO Feature Flag is a simple, complete and lightweight self-hosted cloud native feature flag solution 100% Open Source. 🎛️

Outstanding. A score of 98/100 puts this repo in a very small tier of truly well-engineered projects.

Top fixes

Highest-impact changes first, ranked by point weight

3 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
    Contributing guide5pt

    Show new contributors how to get a local dev environment running.

  3. 3
    Contributing guide5pt

    Describe your linting/formatting rules and how to run them.

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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 MIT.

Engineering

100

Tests18pt100

Test files detected (cmd/cli/evaluate/evaluate_cmd_test.go).

CI/CD14pt100

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

Linting and formatting5pt100

Formatting enforced (.golangci.yml).

Reproducibility6pt100

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

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

  • -
    Commits (30d / 90d)
  • 206
    Forks
  • 228
    Releaseslatest 5y ago

Community

  • -
    Community health
  • -
    authors own >50% of commits
  • 2,042
    Watchers

Responsiveness

  • 13d 19h
    Median issue response
  • <1h
    Median PR merge time
  • 20
    Open issues
Repository files58 root entries
  • .github
    Good: CI is configured (.github/workflows/check_openfeature_pr.yml).
    Good: Dependabot covers 16 ecosystems (gomod, github-actions, nuget, gomod, npm, maven, gradle, pip, npm, npm, npm, gradle, gomod, npm, gomod, gomod). Dependencies stay current.
    Good: Issue or PR templates present.
  • .schema
  • .sonarlint
  • .well-known
  • cmd
    Good: Test files detected (cmd/cli/evaluate/evaluate_cmd_test.go).
    Good: Environment pinned via cmd/cli/Dockerfile.
  • cmdhelpers
  • examples
  • exporter
  • ffcontext
  • ffuser
  • internal
  • model
  • modules
  • notifier
  • openfeature
  • retriever
  • testdata
  • testutils
  • utils
  • website
  • .fips-version
  • .gitattributes
  • .gitignore
    Good: .gitignore present.
  • .gitmodules
  • .golangci.yml
    Good: Formatting enforced (.golangci.yml).
  • .goreleaser.yaml
  • .kodiak.toml
  • .pre-commit-config.yaml
  • .sonarcloud.properties
  • .worktreeinclude
  • ADOPTERS.md
  • AGENTS.md
  • CLAUDE.md
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
    Good: Code of conduct present.
  • codecov.yml
  • config_exporter.go
  • config_test.go
  • config.go
  • 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.
    Good: Contributing guide explains how to run tests.
    Good: Contributing guide describes the PR/review workflow.
    Good: Contributing guide includes code examples.
  • feature_flag_bench_test.go
  • feature_flag_test.go
  • feature_flag.go
  • go.mod
    Good: Dependency manifest found (go.mod).
  • go.sum
    Good: Lockfile present (go.sum). Installs are reproducible.
  • gofeatureflag.svg
  • LICENSE
    Good: Licensed under MIT.
  • logo_128.png
  • logo.png
  • Makefile
  • package_info.go
  • README.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.
  • SECURITY.md
    Good: Security policy present.
  • tracking_test.go
  • tracking.go
  • variation_all_flags_test.go
  • variation_all_flags.go
  • variation_test.go
  • variation.go
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