cbpowell/marqueelabel vs johncoates/aerial
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than marqueelabel. aerial rates Healthy overall while marqueelabel rates Mixed. marqueelabel last saw a commit 9 months ago with 14+ active contributors, while aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cbpowell/marqueelabel →
Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 8mo ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 8mo ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 85% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit 8mo ago
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
johncoates/aerial →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| marqueelabel | aerial | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4,308 | 20,972 |
| Last commit | 9mo ago | 10mo ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 10 | 28 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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