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homebrew/homebrew-cask vs public-activity/public_activity

Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, homebrew-cask and public_activity both show healthy maintenance signals. homebrew-cask last saw a commit 1 month ago with 4+ active contributors, while public_activity last saw a commit 5 months ago with 15+ active contributors. homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while public_activity is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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homebrew/homebrew-cask

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Small team — 4 contributors active in recent commits
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 53% of recent commits
  • No test directory detected
  • Last commit today
  • 4 active contributors
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • CI configured

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

public-activity/public_activity

Healthy

Healthy across all four use cases

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.

  • Slowing — last commit 4mo ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 60% of recent commits
  • Last commit 4mo ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

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

Signal-by-signal breakdown

homebrew-caskpublic_activity
Stars22,0082,990
Last commit1mo ago5mo ago
LicenseBSD-2-ClauseMIT
Open issues3221
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage0%70%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineHealthy signalsHealthy signals

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