apigy/selfstarter vs ruby-china/homeland
ruby-china/homeland shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homeland shows healthier maintenance signals than selfstarter. homeland rates Healthy overall while selfstarter rates Mixed. selfstarter last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while homeland last saw a commit 1 month ago with 6+ active contributors. selfstarter is Other-licensed while homeland is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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apigy/selfstarter →
Stale — last commit 4y ago
non-standard license (Other); last commit was 4y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 4y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 4y ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 43% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
ruby-china/homeland →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 57% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓6 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| selfstarter | homeland | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,157 | 3,860 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 49 | 49 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 42% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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