containerd/nerdctl vs juliusbrussee/caveman
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, nerdctl and caveman both show healthy maintenance signals. nerdctl was committed to 6 days ago with 17+ active contributors, while caveman was committed to 1 week ago with 8+ active contributors. nerdctl is Apache-2.0-licensed while caveman is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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containerd/nerdctl
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 52% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
juliusbrussee/caveman
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 74% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓MIT 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| nerdctl | caveman | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 10,371 | 103,084 |
| Last commit | 6d ago | 13d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 352 | 95 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 41% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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