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Package Health Score

75 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Inactive
community
Active

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Popularity

Popular

GitHub Stars: 32.16K
Forks: 3.43K
Contributors: 390

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Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package letsencrypt, we found that it has been starred 32,165 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: May 27, 2016
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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License

Apache-2.0

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 130
Open PR: 52
Last Release: 9 years ago
Last Commit: 2 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of letsencrypt based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Inactive.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for letsencrypt is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 390
Funding: Yes

A good and healthy external contribution signal for letsencrypt project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

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Python Versions Compatibility: ==2.6.*, ==2.7.*

Age: 10 years
Latest Release: 9 years ago
Dependencies: 1 Direct
Versions: 23
Maintainers: 4
Wheels: OS Independent

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"""
        avail_fp = nonssl_vhost.filep
        ssl_fp = self._get_ssl_vhost_path(avail_fp)

        self._copy_create_ssl_vhost_skeleton(avail_fp, ssl_fp)

        # Reload augeas to take into account the new vhost
        self.aug.load()
        #TODO: add line to write vhost name
        # Get Vhost augeas path for new vhost
        vh_p = self.aug.match("/files%s//* [label()=~regexp('%s')]" %
                              (ssl_fp, parser.case_i("VirtualHost")))
        if len(vh_p) != 1:
            logger.error("Error: should only be one vhost in %s", avail_fp)
            raise errors.PluginError("Currently, we only support "
                                     "configurations with one vhost per file")
        else:
            # This simplifies the process
            vh_p = vh_p[0]

        # Update Addresses
        self._update_ssl_vhosts_addrs(vh_p)

        # Add directives
        self._add_dummy_ssl_directives(vh_p)
        self.save()

        # Log actions and create save notes
        logger.info("Created an SSL vhost at %s", ssl_fp)
        self.save_notes += "Created ssl vhost at %s\n" % ssl_fp
        self.save()

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Is letsencrypt popular?

The python package letsencrypt receives a total of 21,575 weekly downloads. As such, letsencrypt popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is letsencrypt well maintained?

We found indications that letsencrypt is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is letsencrypt safe to use?

The python package letsencrypt was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

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