homebrew/homebrew-cask vs technicalpickles/homesick
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, homebrew-cask and homesick both show healthy maintenance signals. homebrew-cask was committed to 1 week ago with 5+ active contributors, while homesick last saw a commit 2 months ago with 12+ active contributors. homebrew-cask is BSD-2-Clause-licensed while homesick is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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homebrew/homebrew-cask
Strong maintenance signals
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; 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
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
- ✓BSD-2-Clause licensed
- ✓CI configured
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
technicalpickles/homesick
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 7w ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 48% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| homebrew-cask | homesick | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 22,189 | 2,453 |
| Last commit | 9d ago | 2mo ago |
| License | BSD-2-Clause | MIT |
| Open issues | 29 | 14 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 57% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | C |
| Cycles | 0 | 0 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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