johncoates/aerial vs kasketis/netfox
johncoates/aerial shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, aerial shows healthier maintenance signals than netfox. aerial rates Healthy overall while netfox rates Mixed. aerial last saw a commit 10 months ago with 9+ active contributors, while netfox last saw a commit 2 years ago with 23+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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johncoates/aerial →
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
- ⚠Slowing — last commit 9mo ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 75% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 9mo ago
- ✓9 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
kasketis/netfox →
Stale — last commit 2y ago
last commit was 2y ago; no tests detected
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.
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓23+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 27% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Mixed → Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| aerial | netfox | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 20,972 | 3,750 |
| Last commit | 10mo ago | 2y ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 28 | 45 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | — | — |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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