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Focalboard

A board from Mattermost. The last tagged release was June 2024.

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10/19 signals

Why this score

Not enough measured signals for Owner-safe, and the score is outside the Needs-a-techie band. Captured 2026-10-15. Unmeasured signals add nothing and are not treated as failures.

Alive3.8/20
  • Last push. 3.2 points. GitHub pushed_at was 149 days before 2026-10-15.
  • Releases in 12 months. 0.6 points. 0 tagged releases in the last 12 months, from the public releases feed.
  • How fast issues close. Not measured. Median issue-close time is not in the seed snapshot, so this signal is omitted.
Trusted6.3/20
  • OpenSSF Scorecard. 4.3 points. OpenSSF Scorecard 6.2 out of 10.
  • Open critical or high vulnerabilities. Not measured. Open vulnerability counts were not fetched. We do not assume zero.
  • Contributors in 90 days. Not measured. 90-day contributor counts were not fetched.
  • Bus factor. Not measured. Contributor share was not fetched.
  • Stars. 2 points. 26,502 stars, log-scaled and capped at 20,000.
Takeoverable11.7/25
  • Licence. 6 points. Licence class network copyleft.
  • Stack. 3.8 points. TypeScript. TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, and Vue score as widely hireable.
  • Tests and CI. 1.9 points. A CI workflow file was found. A test suite was not separately confirmed, so this signal scores half.
  • Docs quality. Not measured. Docs quality is an LLM rubric. v1 does not invent that score.
  • Data export. Not measured. Data-export was not audited app by app, so it is omitted.
Easy to run9/20
  • One-click deploy. Not measured. No one-click host was verified for this app, so the signal is omitted rather than scored as a failure.
  • Managed cloud or done-for-you. 5 points. SeatLess offers done-for-you setup. A vendor cloud, where listed, is the vendor’s own hosting, not a licence you own.
  • Docker Compose. 4 points. A Dockerfile or Compose file is in the repository.
  • Memory needs. Not measured. Memory needs were not measured.
  • Setup steps. Not measured. Setup-step rubric was not run.
Feature fit9.4/15
  • Coverage of the incumbent’s main jobs. 9.4 points. Editorial reading of public docs. Not a certified feature audit. Unknown jobs are left out of the average.

What it replaces

Focalboard is a Trello-style board. Source builds are AGPL-3.0 under Mattermost’s licensing text; their compiled builds have a separate MIT grant. The public feed’s last tagged release is 17 Jun 2024, though the repo shows a later push. Do not treat it as a busy project.

Replaces TrelloReplaces Ninety.io

Feature coverage vs Trello

Editorial, from public descriptions. A dash means we did not assess that job. This is not a lab test, and Atlassian has not reviewed it.

JobFocalboard
Boards and lists✓
Assignees and due dates✓
Checklists◐
Add-ons✗

Licence, in plain language

AGPL-3.0 Network copyleft

You can use, change, and run it. If you offer the software as a service, you share the changes you make. That is the usual Affero GPL bargain.

Mattermost’s licence text: source under AGPL-3.0, compiled builds they produce under MIT. Read LICENSE.txt.

Repository health

Stars26,502
Forks2,582
Open issues785
Last push2026-05-18
Last tagged release2024-06-17
Releases in 12 months0
OpenSSF Scorecard6.2
LanguageTypeScript
ArchivedNo

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