Bromal
Small team alphaA lightweight Matrix homeserver in Elixir, aimed at small servers, funded by NLnet's NGI0 Commons Fund.
homeserver · licence AGPL-3.0
- Server
- Last commit
- 3 days ago 1 Nov 2026
- Commits, last year
- 172 82 in 90 days
- Authors, 90 days
- 2 2 in a year, 2 ever
- Bus factor
- 1 authors making half of last year's commits
- Last release
- — no tags
- Lines of code
- 41k Elixir
AI
AI policy
What the project says about AI-made contributions
Banned (fits the chosen stance)(against the chosen stance)“Contributions are always welcome, however they are always welcome without ANY use of generative AI/LLMs.”
Source: code.bromal.im/main/bromal/src/commit/128b01ca6accf70c8f4a55f3a7ce11e1f652f9e2/README.org
AI in development
Whether the developers use AI tools on the repository
None found (fits the chosen stance)(against the chosen stance)Collector: 0 of 172 commits in the last year credit an AI tool (0.0 %). 0 agent files, 0 AI workflows. A lower bound: most AI use leaves no trace.
- 0 of 172 non-merge commits since 2025-11-05 attributed; no agent files, counted at 128b01ca
AI in the product
Whether the product itself has AI features
None found (fits the chosen stance)(against the chosen stance)Funder's AI policy
A funder's rules for the work it pays for, shown apart from the project's own policy.
NLnet Foundation (NGI0 Commons Fund), grant from 2026-04. Policy 1.1 (from 2026-01-26) under the transitional arrangement; 2.0 (from 2026-10-20, read-only use only) if the grantee opts in.
“In any case, outcomes purely generated by AI are not allowed to be submitted as work eligible for payment (as part) of the grant. … For any substantive use of GenAI that materially affects outputs, public disclosure is required, making it available to both users and contributors.”
Applies to: work delivered within the NLnet-funded grant.
The 1.1 page: "grantees from concluding programmes (notably NGI Zero Commons Fund, NGI Taler and Fediversity) can opt to continue to follow this version (1.1) of the policy." Under 2.0 the value would be banned. https://nlnet.nl/foundation/policies/generativeAI/1.1/
Stance asked for by the funder: found: the README states the project's own rule, "Contributions are always welcome, however they are always welcome without ANY use of generative AI/LLMs." (README.org#L55-L56), stricter than either policy version
Checked 2026-11-05.
Activity
Languages
Features
| Feature | Value | How we know | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Elixir | — | — |
| Database | PostgreSQL | — | — |
| Federation | Planned: Planned "The project aims to support server-to-server federation, state resolution …" | claimed | code.bromal.im/main/bromal/src/commit/128b01ca6a |
| Resource needs | modest: "could be deployed even on small servers, including VPS" | claimed | code.bromal.im/main/bromal/src/commit/128b01ca6a |
Health signals
- Bus factor (last year)
- 1
- Issue first response
- not measured (the forge did not give it)
- Release cadence
- 0 tags in the last year
- CI
.forgejo/workflows/ci.yaml.forgejo/workflows/complement.yaml.forgejo/workflows/oci.yaml- Tests
- test files found
- Security policy
- none found
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Funding
- nlnet.nl/project/Bromal
- Telemetry SDKs in manifests
- none found
Repositories
| Repository | Role | Activity | Last commit | Commits 1y | Authors 90d | Measured at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code.bromal.im/main/bromal | main | Small team | 1 Nov 2026 | 172 | 2 | 128b01ca6 |
Notes
Added in the integration pass from lane 5's NLnet list. README: "This software is under active development"; no releases, so maturity alpha is our reading. The repo carries a complement/ directory (Matrix compliance tests). The project's own ban is stricter than either NLnet policy version.
Researched by an AI agent (Claude) on 5 Nov 2026, not checked by a person; metrics collected on 5 Nov 2026. Source file: data/projects/server/bromal.yaml. Spotted a mistake? Open an issue with a link.