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 →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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 Concerns → 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
google/grumpy →
Stale — last commit 4y ago
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
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 Mixed → Healthy 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
| glance | grumpy | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 35,415 | 10,505 |
| Last commit | 28d ago | 4y ago |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 326 | 80 |
| Has tests | — | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 30% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | A | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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