halo-dev/halo vs shuzheng/zheng
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, halo and zheng both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors, while zheng last saw a commit 3 years ago with 4+ active contributors. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while zheng is MIT-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
shuzheng/zheng
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; top contributor handles 94% of recent commits…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 94% of recent commits
- ✓4 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| halo | zheng | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 39,649 | 16,682 |
| Last commit | 11d ago | 3y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Open issues | 116 | 84 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 31% | 3% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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