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freecodecamp/devdocs vs urbanadventurer/whatweb

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, devdocs and whatweb both show mixed maintenance signals. devdocs was committed to 1 week ago with 4+ active contributors, while whatweb last saw a commit 5 months ago with 11+ active contributors. devdocs is MPL-2.0-licensed while whatweb is GPL-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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freecodecamp/devdocs

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

top contributor handles 97% of recent commits; 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 "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 97% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1d ago
  • 4 active contributors
  • MPL-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

urbanadventurer/whatweb

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-2.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…

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

dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
  • GPL-2.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • Last commit 5w ago
  • 11 active contributors
  • GPL-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency Concerns to Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

devdocswhatweb
Stars39,4166,573
Last commit12d ago5mo ago
LicenseMPL-2.0GPL-2.0
Open issues21850
Has testsUnknown
Has CI
Test coverage4%0%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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