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basecamp/kamal vs steveltn/https-portal

basecamp/kamal shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, kamal shows healthier maintenance signals than https-portal. kamal rates Healthy overall while https-portal rates Mixed. kamal last saw a commit 1 month ago with 14+ active contributors, while https-portal last saw a commit 1 year ago with 16+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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basecamp/kamal

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 80% of recent commits
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 14 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

steveltn/https-portal

Mixed

Stale — last commit 1y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 1y ago; no CI workflows 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 1y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 1y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 64% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 16 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • Tests present

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

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

kamalhttps-portal
Stars14,1944,687
Last commit1mo ago1y ago
LicenseMITMIT
Open issues14350
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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