astral-sh/ruff vs pumpkin-mc/pumpkin
astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than pumpkin. ruff rates Healthy overall while pumpkin rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while pumpkin last saw a commit 1 month ago with 14+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while pumpkin is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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astral-sh/ruff →
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.
- ✓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
pumpkin-mc/pumpkin →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
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 70% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | pumpkin | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 48,249 | 7,548 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 2,036 | 120 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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