bregman-arie/devops-exercises vs minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, devops-exercises and big-list-of-naughty-strings both show mixed maintenance signals. devops-exercises last saw a commit 5 months ago with 80+ active contributors, while big-list-of-naughty-strings last saw a commit 2 years ago with 35+ active contributors. devops-exercises is Other-licensed while big-list-of-naughty-strings is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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bregman-arie/devops-exercises →
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
non-standard license (Other)
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 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 Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓35+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 46% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Maintenance signals: commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| devops-exercises | big-list-of-naughty-strings | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 82,261 | 47,628 |
| Last commit | 5mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Open issues | 46 | 108 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 87% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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