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glanceapp/glance vs google/grumpy

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, glance and grumpy both show mixed maintenance signals. glance was committed to 4 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors, while grumpy last saw a commit 4 years ago with 7+ active contributors. glance is AGPL-3.0-licensed while grumpy is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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glanceapp/glance

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No test directory detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 12 active contributors
  • AGPL-3.0 licensed
  • CI configured

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

google/grumpy

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 4y ago; Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • 7 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 45% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

glancegrumpy
Stars35,41510,505
Last commit28d ago4y ago
LicenseAGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues32680
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%30%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeA
Cycles0
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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