cirruslabs/tart vs milanvarady/applite
cirruslabs/tart shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, tart shows healthier maintenance signals than applite. tart rates Healthy overall while applite rates Mixed. tart was committed to 1 week ago with 17+ active contributors, while applite last saw a commit 1 month ago with 1+ active contributor. tart is Apache-2.0-licensed while applite is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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cirruslabs/tart
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
milanvarady/applite
Solo project — review before adopting
single-maintainer (no co-maintainers visible); no CI workflows detected…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: onboard a second core maintainer
- •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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| tart | applite | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 6,707 | 6,956 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 71 | 9 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 100% | 13% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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