huggingface/transformers vs megadose/holehe
huggingface/transformers shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, transformers shows healthier maintenance signals than holehe. transformers rates Healthy overall while holehe rates Mixed. transformers was committed to today with 53+ active contributors, while holehe last saw a commit 1 year ago with 22+ active contributors. transformers is Apache-2.0-licensed while holehe is GPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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huggingface/transformers →
Healthy across the board
Permissive license, no critical CVEs, actively maintained — safe to depend on.
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓53+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 7% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
megadose/holehe →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
copyleft license (GPL-3.0) — review compatibility; last commit was 2y ago…
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠GPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ✓22+ active contributors
- ✓GPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| transformers | holehe | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 161,971 | 10,926 |
| Last commit | today | 1y ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 2,460 | 74 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 5% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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