jekyll/jekyll vs presidentbeef/brakeman
jekyll/jekyll shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, jekyll shows healthier maintenance signals than brakeman. jekyll rates Healthy overall while brakeman rates Mixed. jekyll last saw a commit 2 months ago with 29+ active contributors, while brakeman last saw a commit 2 months ago with 11+ active contributors. jekyll is MIT-licensed while brakeman is Other-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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jekyll/jekyll →
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 2w ago
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 43% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
presidentbeef/brakeman →
Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting
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.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit 2w ago
- ✓11 active contributors
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| jekyll | brakeman | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 51,406 | 7,231 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | Other |
| Open issues | 247 | 114 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 1% | 100% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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