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andeya/pholcus vs avelino/awesome-go

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, pholcus and awesome-go both show healthy maintenance signals. pholcus last saw a commit 3 months ago with 17+ active contributors, while awesome-go was committed to today with 76+ active contributors. pholcus is Apache-2.0-licensed while awesome-go is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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andeya/pholcus

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2mo ago
  • 17 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

avelino/awesome-go

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 76+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 10% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

pholcusawesome-go
Stars7,590176,527
Last commit3mo agotoday
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues0184
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%10%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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