ebookfoundation/free-programming-books vs stonerl/thaw
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, free-programming-books and thaw both show mixed maintenance signals. free-programming-books was committed to 4 days ago with 82+ active contributors, while thaw was committed to 1 week ago with 4+ active contributors. 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
stonerl/thaw
Mixed signals — read the receipts
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
no description (proxy for README missing); only 9 stars (< 100)
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 73% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓4 active contributors
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
- •Fork & modify Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
- •Learn from Mixed to Healthy if: add a README + repo description
- •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 OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| free-programming-books | thaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 396,718 | 9 |
| Last commit | 4d ago | 12d ago |
| License | CC-BY-4.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 82 | 6 |
| Has tests | No | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 0% | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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