bayandin/awesome-awesomeness vs freecodecamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source
freecodecamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, how-to-contribute-to-open-source shows stronger maintenance signals than awesome-awesomeness. how-to-contribute-to-open-source rates Mixed overall while awesome-awesomeness rates Concerns. awesome-awesomeness last saw a commit 2 years ago with 44+ active contributors, while how-to-contribute-to-open-source last saw a commit 1 year ago with 90+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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bayandin/awesome-awesomeness →
Stale and unlicensed — last commit 2y ago
no license — legally unclear; last commit was 2y ago…
no license — can't legally use code; no tests detected
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code; last commit was 2y ago
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓44+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
freecodecamp/how-to-contribute-to-open-source →
Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
non-standard license (CC-BY-SA-4.0)
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 11mo ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-SA-4.0) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 11mo ago
- ✓90+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 6% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| awesome-awesomeness | how-to-contribute-to-open-source | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 33,418 | 9,279 |
| Last commit | 2y ago | 1y ago |
| License | — | CC-BY-SA-4.0 |
| Open issues | 54 | 91 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Concerns signals | Mixed signals |
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