homebrew/brew vs ytti/oxidized
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, brew and oxidized both show healthy maintenance signals. brew was committed to 1 week ago with 12+ active contributors, while oxidized last saw a commit 4 months ago with 16+ active contributors. brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while oxidized is Apache-2.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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homebrew/brew
Strong maintenance signals
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 "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
ytti/oxidized
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 55% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓16 active contributors
- ✓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
| brew | oxidized | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 49,466 | 3,359 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 4mo ago |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 10 | 54 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 77% | 81% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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