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google/grumpy vs nsqio/nsq

nsqio/nsq shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, nsq shows healthier maintenance signals than grumpy. nsq rates Healthy overall while grumpy rates Mixed. grumpy last saw a commit 4 years ago with 7+ active contributors, while nsq last saw a commit 11 months ago with 20+ active contributors. grumpy is Apache-2.0-licensed while nsq is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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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

nsqio/nsq

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

HealthyDeploy as-is

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

  • Slowing — last commit 10mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
  • Last commit 10mo ago
  • 20 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

grumpynsq
Stars10,50525,727
Last commit4y ago11mo ago
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Open issues8074
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage30%24%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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