Changelog report cards

100 popular open-source projects, graded by the free Wakelog changelog linter — the same automated checks anyone can run on their own CHANGELOG.md or GitHub Releases: dates, ordering, vague titles, commit dumps, breaking-change flagging and more. Re-graded daily.

Go average: 89/100 · median 92/100 · 13 of 13 (100%) score B or better

A 8 (62%)
B 5 (38%)
C 0 (0%)
D 0 (0%)
F 0 (0%)

Language: All (100) Rust (26) TypeScript (20) Go (18) C (9) JavaScript (9) C++ (7) Python (7) Ruby (3) Java (2) Zig (2) C# (1) Crystal (1) Dart (1) Elixir (1) Erlang (1) HCL (1) Julia (1) Kotlin (1) Lua (1) PHP (1) Swift (1)

The score measures one narrow thing: how a project's release notes read to strangers — the structural practices from our guides, not prose quality. A lower grade is not a judgment of the software; these are all excellent projects. Every grade links to its full report, finding by finding.

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Docker Compose container tool Go A 92/100 report · repo
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esbuild build tool Go A 92/100 report · repo
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etcd distributed KV store Go A 92/100 report · repo
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fzf fuzzy finder Go A 92/100 report · repo
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Kubernetes orchestrator Go A 92/100 report · repo
30
OpenTofu IaC tool Go A 92/100 report · repo
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Terraform IaC tool Go A 92/100 report · repo
39
Traefik reverse proxy Go A 92/100 report · repo
47
Caddy web server Go B 84/100 report · repo
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GitHub CLI CLI tool Go B 84/100 report · repo
56
Grafana observability platform TS / Go B 84/100 report · repo
57
Hugo static site generator Go B 84/100 report · repo
59
lazygit git TUI Go B 84/100 report · repo
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Helm Kubernetes package manager · Go — grading soon (check back in an hour)
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Prometheus monitoring system · Go — grading soon (check back in an hour)
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Argo CD GitOps CD · Go — grading soon (check back in an hour)
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Pulumi IaC platform · Go / TS — grading soon (check back in an hour)
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MinIO object storage · Go — grading soon (check back in an hour)

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