halo-dev/halo vs jishenghua/jsherp
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, halo and jsherp both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 2 weeks ago with 5+ active contributors, while jsherp was committed to 1 week ago with 2+ active contributors. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while jsherp is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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halo-dev/halo
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Concerns to 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 OpenSSF Scorecard
jishenghua/jsherp
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
top contributor handles 99% of recent commits; no CI workflows detected
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Small team — 2 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 99% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 2d ago
- ✓2 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: diversify commit ownership (top <90%)
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
| halo | jsherp | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 39,649 | 4,578 |
| Last commit | 15d ago | 7d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 116 | 105 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 31% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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