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astral-sh/ruff vs rwf2/rocket

astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than rocket. ruff rates Healthy overall while rocket rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while rocket last saw a commit 6 months ago with 26+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while rocket 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

rwf2/rocket

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 4mo ago

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 26+ active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

ruffrocket
Stars48,24925,734
Last committoday6mo ago
LicenseMITOther
Open issues2,03680
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%82%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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