chinabugotech/hutool vs kodezi/chronos
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, hutool and chronos both show mixed maintenance signals. hutool was committed to 3 weeks ago with 16+ active contributors, while chronos last saw a commit 7 months ago with 1+ active contributor. hutool is MulanPSL-2.0-licensed while chronos is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chinabugotech/hutool →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (MulanPSL-2.0)
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 59% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (MulanPSL-2.0) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓MulanPSL-2.0 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, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
kodezi/chronos →
Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
non-standard license (Other); single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible)
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 6mo ago
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 6mo ago
- ✓Other 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
| hutool | chronos | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 30,287 | 4,950 |
| Last commit | 24d ago | 7mo ago |
| License | MulanPSL-2.0 | Other |
| Open issues | 3 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 16% | 6% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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