django/django vs tornadoweb/tornado
django/django shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, django shows healthier maintenance signals than tornado. django rates Healthy overall while tornado rates Mixed. django was committed to today with 40+ active contributors, while tornado last saw a commit 1 month ago with 13+ active contributors. django is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while tornado is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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django/django
Strong maintenance signals
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.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; 2 cyclic import chains detected
- ✓In RepoPilot's curated trusted-corpus (29 projects)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓40+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 31% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-3-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Token-Permissions" 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
tornadoweb/tornado
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 82% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓13 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
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| django | tornado | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 91,086 | 22,179 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | BSD-3-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 501 | 252 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 2 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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