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homebrew/brew vs mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of September 2026, brew and acts-as-taggable-on both show healthy maintenance signals. brew was committed to 1 week ago with 12+ active contributors, while acts-as-taggable-on last saw a commit 1 month ago with 41+ active contributors. brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while acts-as-taggable-on is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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homebrew/brew

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

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; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit today
  • 12 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 39% of recent commits)
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

mbleigh/acts-as-taggable-on

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

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; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10…

  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 4w ago
  • 41+ active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • 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

brewacts-as-taggable-on
Stars49,4664,988
Last commit9d ago1mo ago
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseMIT
Open issues1070
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage77%100%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeCC
Cycles00
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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