forem/forem vs orbitalindex/awesome-space
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, forem and awesome-space both show mixed maintenance signals. forem was committed to 1 day ago with 13+ active contributors, while awesome-space last saw a commit 4 months ago with 32+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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forem/forem
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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
orbitalindex/awesome-space
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
test evidence incomplete; CI evidence incomplete…
test evidence incomplete; CI evidence incomplete…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
CI evidence incomplete; license evidence incomplete…
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
- ⚠Could not verify license, tests, CI from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓32+ active contributors
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| forem | awesome-space | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,777 | 2,164 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 134 | 6 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | Unknown |
| Test coverage | 64% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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