3b1b/videos vs ebookfoundation/free-programming-books
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, videos and free-programming-books both show mixed maintenance signals. videos was committed to 3 weeks ago with 3+ active contributors, while free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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3b1b/videos
Mixed signals — read the receipts
no CI workflows detected; license evidence incomplete…
no CI workflows detected; license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no CI workflows detected; license evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
ebookfoundation/free-programming-books
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓82+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 6% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| videos | free-programming-books | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 11,214 | 396,718 |
| Last commit | 22d ago | 4d ago |
| License | Unknown | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Open issues | 45 | 82 |
| Has tests | ✓ | No |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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