defunkt/dotjs vs forem/forem
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, dotjs and forem both show mixed maintenance signals. dotjs last saw a commit 8 years ago with 30+ active contributors, while forem was committed to 1 day ago with 13+ active contributors. dotjs is MIT-licensed while forem is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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defunkt/dotjs
Stale — last commit 8y ago
last commit was 8y ago; test evidence incomplete…
test evidence incomplete; CI evidence incomplete…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 8y ago; CI evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 8y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ✓30+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
forem/forem
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; 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 53% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| dotjs | forem | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,140 | 22,777 |
| Last commit | 8y ago | 1d ago |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 19 | 134 |
| Has tests | Unknown | ✓ |
| Has CI | Unknown | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 64% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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