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astral-sh/ruff vs ogham/dog

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than dog. ruff rates Healthy overall while dog rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while dog last saw a commit 2 years ago with 17+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while dog is EUPL-1.2-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

ogham/dog

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (EUPL-1.2); last commit was 2y ago

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

last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 82% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (EUPL-1.2) — review terms
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 17 active contributors
  • EUPL-1.2 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

ruffdog
Stars48,2496,650
Last committoday2y ago
LicenseMITEUPL-1.2
Open issues2,03680
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%6%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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