Changelog report cards — how popular open-source projects score

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: 87/100 · median 88/100 · 18 of 18 (100%) score B or better

A 9 (50%)

B 9 (50%)

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.

16

OpenTofu IaC tool Go A 100/100 report · repo

36

Docker Compose container tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

39

esbuild build tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

41

etcd distributed KV store Go A 92/100 report · repo

48

Kubernetes orchestrator Go A 92/100 report · repo

49

lazygit git TUI Go A 92/100 report · repo

55

Pulumi IaC platform Go / TS A 92/100 report · repo

64

Terraform IaC tool Go A 92/100 report · repo

65

Traefik reverse proxy Go A 92/100 report · repo

72

Caddy web server Go B 84/100 report · repo

77

fzf fuzzy finder Go B 84/100 report · repo

78

GitHub CLI CLI tool Go B 84/100 report · repo

79

Grafana observability platform TS / Go B 84/100 report · repo

80

Hugo static site generator Go B 84/100 report · repo

82

MinIO object storage Go B 84/100 report · repo

91

Argo CD GitOps CD Go B 76/100 report · repo

92

Helm Kubernetes package manager Go B 76/100 report · repo

95

Prometheus monitoring system Go B 76/100 report · repo

How would yours score? Lint your changelog — paste a file or drop a repo URL, free, no signup. Then put the grade in your README with a live badge, or host a changelog on Wakelog that passes by construction: dated entries, permalinks, RSS, newest-first, breaking-change tags.