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Overview
HEALTH SCORE
Excellent
86out of 100
Strong maintainer coverage and security posture. Development cadence is the only remaining gap.
LIFECYCLE
Active
Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.
Health breakdown
Excellent(86/100)
Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.
Maintainer responsiveness
Median response time is 1 day.
Bus factor
7 active maintainers currently have merge rights.
Organization Diversity
Contributors span 61 organizations.
Project Achievements
Leaderboards
About
polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations in Linux/Unix systems. It provides an organized way for non-privileged processes to communicate with privileged ones, allowing fine-grained control over system-wide privileges and permissions. The toolkit includes a system daemon and a set of command line tools for authorization management.
First commit
Software value
$1M
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