astral-sh/ruff vs yoav-lavi/melody
astral-sh/ruff shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, ruff shows healthier maintenance signals than melody. ruff rates Healthy overall while melody rates Mixed. ruff was committed to today with 21+ active contributors, while melody last saw a commit 1 year ago with 4+ active contributors. ruff is MIT-licensed while melody is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
yoav-lavi/melody →
Stale — last commit 1y ago
last commit was 1y ago; top contributor handles 97% of recent commits
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ruff | melody | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 48,249 | 4,747 |
| Last commit | today | 1y ago |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 2,036 | 9 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 6% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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