discourse/discourse vs linuxbrew/brew
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, discourse and brew both show mixed maintenance signals. discourse was committed to 1 week ago with 15+ active contributors, while brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors. discourse is GPL-2.0-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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discourse/discourse
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — 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
- ⚠GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: dangerous CI workflow (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-2.0 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
linuxbrew/brew
Stale — last commit 7y ago
last commit was 7y ago; CI evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 7y ago; CI evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Stale — last commit 7y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓Tests present
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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| discourse | brew | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 47,793 | 2,654 |
| Last commit | 10d ago | 7y ago |
| License | GPL-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Open issues | 232 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | Unknown |
| Test coverage | 66% | 1% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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