eggswift/estabbarcontroller vs jordanbaird/ice
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, estabbarcontroller and ice both show mixed maintenance signals. estabbarcontroller last saw a commit 3 years ago with 24+ active contributors, while ice last saw a commit 12 months ago with 4+ active contributors. estabbarcontroller is MIT-licensed while ice is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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eggswift/estabbarcontroller
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; test 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 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ✓24+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 45% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
jordanbaird/ice
Slowing — last commit 12mo ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; top contributor handles 95% of recent commits…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 12mo ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 12mo ago
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 12mo ago
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
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: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| estabbarcontroller | ice | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 5,243 | 29,517 |
| Last commit | 3y ago | 12mo ago |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 40 | 421 |
| Has tests | Unknown | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | C |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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