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grenderg/toasty vs netflix/hystrix

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, toasty and hystrix both show mixed maintenance signals. toasty last saw a commit 3 years ago with 17+ active contributors, while hystrix last saw a commit 6 months ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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grenderg/toasty

Mixed

Stale — last commit 4y ago

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (LGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 4y ago…

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; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 4y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
  • LGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 17 active contributors
  • LGPL-3.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
  • 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

netflix/hystrix

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 5mo ago

ConcernsDependency

no license — legally unclear

ConcernsFork & modify

no license — can't legally use code

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

ConcernsDeploy as-is

no license — can't legally use code

  • Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
  • No license — legally unclear to depend on
  • Last commit 5mo ago
  • 26+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
  • Fork & modify ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file
  • Deploy as-is ConcernsMixed if: add a LICENSE file

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

toastyhystrix
Stars6,59224,461
Last commit3y ago6mo ago
LicenseLGPL-3.0
Open issues5056
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%84%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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