jboss-javassist/javassist vs netflix/hystrix
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of June 2026, javassist and hystrix both show mixed maintenance signals. javassist was committed to 6 days ago with 17+ active contributors, while hystrix last saw a commit 6 months ago with 26+ active contributors. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jboss-javassist/javassist →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
non-standard license (Other)
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 69% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 5d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
- →Deploy as-is Mixed → 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
netflix/hystrix →
Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
no license — legally unclear
no license — can't legally use code
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no license — can't legally use code
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 5mo ago
- ⚠No license — legally unclear to depend on
- ✓Last commit 5mo ago
- ✓26+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 38% of recent commits)
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: publish a permissive license (MIT, Apache-2.0, etc.)
- →Fork & modify Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
- →Deploy as-is Concerns → Mixed if: add a LICENSE file
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| javassist | hystrix | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 4,232 | 24,461 |
| Last commit | 6d ago | 6mo ago |
| License | Other | — |
| Open issues | 254 | 56 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 84% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | — |
| Cycles | 0 | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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