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halo-dev/halo vs tencent/apijson

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, halo and apijson both show mixed maintenance signals. halo was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors, while apijson was committed to 3 weeks ago with 8+ active contributors. halo is GPL-3.0-licensed while apijson 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

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

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

tencent/apijson

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

MixedDependency

no CI workflows detected; dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; no CI workflows detected…

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 82% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 2d ago
  • 8 active contributors
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

haloapijson
Stars39,64918,399
Last commit10d ago26d ago
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Open issues116241
Has tests
Has CINo
Test coverage31%3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeCC
Cycles00
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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