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bregman-arie/devops-exercises vs megadose/holehe

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, devops-exercises and holehe both show mixed maintenance signals. devops-exercises last saw a commit 5 months ago with 80+ active contributors, while holehe last saw a commit 1 year ago with 22+ active contributors. devops-exercises is Other-licensed while holehe is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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bregman-arie/devops-exercises

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
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 80+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

megadose/holehe

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 2y ago…

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 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • 22+ active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests + OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

devops-exercisesholehe
Stars82,26110,926
Last commit5mo ago1y ago
LicenseOtherGPL-3.0
Open issues4674
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage87%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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