halo-dev/halo vs kekingcn/kkfileview
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, halo and kkfileview both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 2 weeks ago with 5+ active contributors, while kkfileview was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors. 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
kekingcn/kkfileview
Evidence incomplete — review before adopting
license evidence incomplete
license evidence incomplete
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; license evidence incomplete
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 63% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ⚠Could not verify license from the available repository evidence
- ✓Last commit 1w ago
- ✓8 active contributors
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
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 | kkfileview | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 39,649 | 14,629 |
| Last commit | 15d ago | 23d ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Unknown |
| Open issues | 116 | 32 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 31% | 7% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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