coleifer/peewee vs ebookfoundation/free-programming-books
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, peewee and free-programming-books both show mixed maintenance signals. peewee was committed to today with 1+ active contributor, while free-programming-books was committed to 3 days ago with 80+ active contributors. peewee is MIT-licensed while free-programming-books is CC-BY-4.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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coleifer/peewee →
Solo project — review before adopting
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.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → 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
ebookfoundation/free-programming-books →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0); no tests detected
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.
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓80+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 5% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| peewee | free-programming-books | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 11,983 | 390,762 |
| Last commit | today | 3d ago |
| License | MIT | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Open issues | 0 | 78 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 98% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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