chris911/istats vs homebrew/homebrew-cask
homebrew/homebrew-cask shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, homebrew-cask shows healthier maintenance signals than istats. homebrew-cask rates Healthy overall while istats rates Mixed. istats last saw a commit 3 years ago with 9+ active contributors, while homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors. istats is MIT-licensed while homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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chris911/istats →
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 58% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓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
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
homebrew/homebrew-cask →
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.
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| istats | homebrew-cask | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 2,450 | 22,008 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 32 | 32 |
| Has tests | — | — |
| Has CI | — | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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