evilsocket/cake vs tw93/pake
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, cake and pake both show mixed maintenance signals. cake last saw a commit 4 months ago with 3+ active contributors, while pake was committed to 1 week ago with 15+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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evilsocket/cake
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 95% of recent commits; license evidence incomplete…
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
license evidence incomplete; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Small team — 3 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 95% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓3 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
tw93/pake
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
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.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| cake | pake | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3,027 | 61,322 |
| Last commit | 4mo ago | 10d ago |
| License | Unknown | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 16 | 0 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 16% | 89% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | A |
| Cycles | — | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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