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jordansissel/fpm vs linuxbrew/brew

Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health

As of June 2026, fpm and brew both show mixed maintenance signals. fpm last saw a commit 2 months ago with 8+ active contributors, while brew last saw a commit 7 years ago with 7+ active contributors. fpm is Other-licensed while brew is BSD-2-Clause-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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jordansissel/fpm

Mixed

Mixed signals — read the receipts

ConcernsDependency

non-standard license (Other)

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

HealthyDeploy as-is

No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 78% of recent commits
  • Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
  • Last commit 2w ago
  • 8 active contributors
  • Other licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency ConcernsMixed if: clarify license terms

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

linuxbrew/brew

Mixed

Stale — last commit 7y ago

MixedDependency

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

HealthyFork & modify

Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

last commit was 7y ago; no CI workflows detected

  • Stale — last commit 7y ago
  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 62% of recent commits
  • No CI workflows detected
  • 7 active contributors
  • BSD-2-Clause licensed
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Use as dependency MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 365 days
  • Deploy as-is MixedHealthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests

Signal-by-signal breakdown

fpmbrew
Stars11,4682,654
Last commit2mo ago7y ago
LicenseOtherBSD-2-Clause
Open issues7890
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage100%1%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture grade
Cycles
Bottom-lineMixed signalsMixed signals

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