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astral-sh/ruff vs johnlui/pphc

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than pphc. ruff rates Healthy overall while pphc rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while pphc last saw a commit 3 months ago with 10+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while pphc is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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astral-sh/ruff

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.

  • Last commit today
  • 21+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 35% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

johnlui/pphc

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other); no tests detected…

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 61% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit 6w ago
  • 10 active contributors
  • Other licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ruffpphc
Stars48,2493,939
Last committoday3mo ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues2,0366
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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