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forem/forem vs galetahub/ckeditor

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, forem and ckeditor both show mixed maintenance signals. forem was committed to 1 day ago with 13+ active contributors, while ckeditor last saw a commit 1 year ago with 18+ active contributors. forem is AGPL-3.0-licensed while ckeditor is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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forem/forem

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit today
  • 13 active contributors
  • AGPL-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 OpenSSF Scorecard

galetahub/ckeditor

Mixed

Stale — last commit 2y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 2y ago; no CI workflows detected…

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10…

  • Stale — last commit 2y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 18 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days; 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

foremckeditor
Stars22,7772,224
Last commit1d ago1y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0MIT
Open issues13416
Has tests
Has CINo
Test coverage64%80%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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