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hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws vs spf13/cobra

spf13/cobra shows stronger signals overall

As of June 2026, cobra shows healthier maintenance signals than terraform-provider-aws. cobra rates Healthy overall while terraform-provider-aws rates Mixed. terraform-provider-aws last saw a commit 1 month ago with 14+ active contributors, while cobra last saw a commit 2 months ago with 51+ active contributors. terraform-provider-aws is MPL-2.0-licensed while cobra is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

MixedDependency

no tests detected; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • No CI workflows detected
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit today
  • 14 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 19% of recent commits)
  • MPL-2.0 licensed

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: add a test suite

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

spf13/cobra

Healthy

Healthy across the board

HealthyDependency

Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 51+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 11% of recent commits)
  • Apache-2.0 licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

terraform-provider-awscobra
Stars10,86143,893
Last commit1mo ago2mo ago
LicenseMPL-2.0Apache-2.0
Open issues3,422363
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage3%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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