RepoPilot

astral-sh/ruff vs redox-os/orbtk

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than orbtk. ruff rates Healthy overall while orbtk rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while orbtk last saw a commit 3 years ago with 6+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

Informational only. RepoPilot summarises public signals at the time of analysis. Not professional, security, or legal advice.

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

redox-os/orbtk

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 4y ago; 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.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 4y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 6 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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 OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

rufforbtk
Stars48,2493,783
Last committoday3y ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues2,03687
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

Want the full analysis? astral-sh/ruff · redox-os/orbtk

Ask AI about astral-sh/ruff vs redox-os/orbtk

Open the chat with a comparison question pre-filled.