fuellabs/fuel-core vs pythops/impala
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, fuel-core and impala both show mixed maintenance signals. fuel-core was committed to 1 week ago with 14+ active contributors, while impala last saw a commit 5 months ago with 15+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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fuellabs/fuel-core
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓14 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 22% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
pythops/impala
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; test evidence incomplete…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 84% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 3w ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 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
| fuel-core | impala | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 56,863 | 2,618 |
| Last commit | 7d ago | 5mo ago |
| License | Unknown | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 200 | 14 |
| Has tests | ✓ | Unknown |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 18% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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