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crossoverjie/jcsprout vs facebook/buck

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, jcsprout and buck both show mixed maintenance signals. jcsprout last saw a commit 2 years ago with 7+ active contributors, while buck last saw a commit 2 years ago with 37+ active contributors. jcsprout is MIT-licensed while buck is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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crossoverjie/jcsprout

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; top contributor handles 91% of recent commits

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 91% of recent commits
  • 7 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

facebook/buck

Mixed

Stale — last commit 3y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 3y ago
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 37+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

jcsproutbuck
Stars26,9418,546
Last commit2y ago2y ago
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Open issues45226
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage40%6%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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