freshrss/freshrss vs nkanaev/yarr
freshrss/freshrss shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, freshrss shows healthier maintenance signals than yarr. freshrss rates Healthy overall while yarr rates Mixed. freshrss was committed to 1 week ago with 25+ active contributors, while yarr was committed to 1 week ago with 1+ active contributor. freshrss is AGPL-3.0-licensed while yarr is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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freshrss/freshrss
Strong maintenance signals
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.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓25+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 22% of recent commits)
- ✓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
nkanaev/yarr
Solo project — review before adopting
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Solo or near-solo (1 contributor active in recent commits)
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| freshrss | yarr | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 15,933 | 4,043 |
| Last commit | 13d ago | 11d ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 671 | 8 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 7% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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