dietrichgebert/ponytail vs librespeed/speedtest
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, ponytail and speedtest both show healthy maintenance signals. ponytail was committed to 1 week ago with 39+ active contributors, while speedtest last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors. ponytail is MIT-licensed while speedtest is LGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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dietrichgebert/ponytail
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 "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓39+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 45% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
librespeed/speedtest
Strong maintenance signals
copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓13 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 37% of recent commits)
- ✓LGPL-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)
- •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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| ponytail | speedtest | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 129,642 | 15,108 |
| Last commit | 12d ago | 1mo ago |
| License | MIT | LGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 225 | 12 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 63% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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