halo-dev/halo vs smuyyh/bookreader
halo-dev/halo shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, halo shows healthier maintenance signals than bookreader. halo rates Healthy overall while bookreader rates Mixed. halo last saw a commit 1 month ago with 11+ active contributors, while bookreader last saw a commit 3 years ago with 7+ active contributors. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while bookreader is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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halo-dev/halo →
Healthy across the board
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 44% of recent commits)
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → 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
smuyyh/bookreader →
Stale — last commit 3y ago
last commit was 3y ago; no tests detected…
no tests detected; no CI workflows detected…
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 3y ago; no CI workflows detected
- ⚠Stale — last commit 3y ago
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 86% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓7 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days; add a test suite
- →Fork & modify Mixed → Healthy if: add a test suite
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| halo | bookreader | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 38,498 | 6,894 |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 3y ago |
| License | GPL-3.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 189 | 40 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | — |
| Test coverage | 11% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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