google/wire vs schollz/croc
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, wire and croc both show mixed maintenance signals. wire last saw a commit 1 year ago with 26+ active contributors, while croc was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors. wire is Apache-2.0-licensed while croc is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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google/wire
Stale — last commit 1y ago
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.
last commit was 1y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 1y ago
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 36% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to 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 dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
schollz/croc
Single-maintainer risk — 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
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 81% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓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
| wire | croc | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 14,408 | 40,274 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 10d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 108 | 2 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 68% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | B | A |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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