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cirruslabs/tart vs lwouis/alt-tab-macos

cirruslabs/tart shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, tart shows healthier maintenance signals than alt-tab-macos. tart rates Healthy overall while alt-tab-macos rates Mixed. tart was committed to 1 week ago with 17+ active contributors, while alt-tab-macos was committed to 1 week ago with 3+ active contributors. tart is Apache-2.0-licensed while alt-tab-macos is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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cirruslabs/tart

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.

  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 17 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 43% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

lwouis/alt-tab-macos

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No tests detected in the complete Git tree
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 3 active contributors
  • GPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

tartalt-tab-macos
Stars6,70716,243
Last commit9d ago11d ago
LicenseApache-2.0GPL-3.0
Open issues7171
Has testsNo
Has CI
Test coverage100%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeCC
Cycles00
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsMixed signals

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