ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs microsoft/autogen
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, free-programming-books and autogen both show mixed maintenance signals. free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors, while autogen last saw a commit 5 months ago with 33+ active contributors. Both use the CC-BY-4.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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ebookfoundation/free-programming-books
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0); no tests detected in the complete Git tree…
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
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓82+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 6% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
microsoft/autogen
Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0)
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
- ⚠Non-standard license (CC-BY-4.0) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 4mo ago
- ✓33+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 41% of recent commits)
- ✓CC-BY-4.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: clarify license terms
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
| free-programming-books | autogen | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 396,718 | 60,503 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 5mo ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Open issues | 82 | 996 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 32% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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